Human prion diseases

The prion diseases, sometimes referred to as the "transmissible spongiform encephalopathies," include kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease of humans as well as scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy of animals. Por many years, the prion diseases were thought to be caused by viruses despite intr...More