Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

degenerative neurological disorder

counterpart in cattle to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

human disease

Prion disease of the human brain

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group of brain diseases induced by prion proteins

transmissible spongiform encephalopathy affecting deer

prion disease characterized by adult onset of memory loss, dementia, ataxia, and pathologic deposition of amyloid-like plaques in the brain

degenerative brain disease caused by prions

Feline brain disease

health crisis in 1990s