by Gary Chandler | Aug 4, 2021 | Prion Disease
France Halts Prion Research Prions are lethal. They migrate, mutate and kill with unparalleled efficiency. As such prion disease is the fastest-growing cause of death on the planet. It kills most, if not all, mammals. Unfortunately, prion contamination is spreading...
by Gary Chandler | Mar 17, 2020 | Prion Disease
CJD Is Highly Transmissible Neurodegenerative disease is the fastest-growing cause of death in the world. It’s quietly become a public health disaster and it will get worse. Alzheimer’s disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) are essentially the same...
by Gary Chandler | Feb 21, 2018 | Prion Disease
Prion Science Still Unfolding Neurodegenerative disease is the fastest-growing cause of death in the world. Prion disease is responsible for the vast majority of the surge in humans and other mammals. Professor Goedert, a program leader at the MRC Laboratory of...
by Gary Chandler | Nov 23, 2017 | Prion Disease
Prion Contamination Causing Disease Transmission Researchers have found abnormal prion protein in the skin of 23 people who died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). Meanwhile exposing mice to skin tissue taken from the CJD patients caused them to develop prion...
by Gary Chandler | Jul 14, 2017 | Prion Disease
Prion Disease Mismanaged By John Fauber, Reporter, MedPage Today When Tim Suroviak developed cognitive problems after coming home following heart surgery last year, one of the first questions doctors asked was whether he was a hunter. He was not, though his family did...
by Gary Chandler | Mar 12, 2017 | Prion Disease
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy If you think that you and your family are immune to the surging epidemic of neurodegenerative disease, think again. Neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer’s disease, is the fastest-growing cause of...