Prion Research Kills Another Scientist

Prion Research Kills Another Scientist

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...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Often Misdiagnosed

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Often Misdiagnosed

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...
Prion Research Kills Another Scientist

Tau Proteins Are Prions

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...
Prion Research Kills Another Scientist

Skin Can Transmit 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...
Prion Research Kills Another Scientist

Prion Surveillance Center Under Attack

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...