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Alzheimer’s disease may be transmissible, some experts say—but only in rare, unusual circumstances....
Fortune via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoIncredibly rare and exotic prion diseases hold uncomfortable similarities with other...
What Is Kuru?
Verywell Health via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA Prion Disease Spread by Ingesting Human Brain Matter Andrew Brookes/ Getty Images Medically reviewed by Ronald Lubelchek, MD Kuru is an extremely rare...
How to control chronic wasting disease
Knowable Magazine via Yahoo News· 2 months agoA prion sickness similar to mad cow is spreading rapidly through North America’s deer and elk populations. A veterinary microbiologist discusses the...
Contaminated deer meat may have caused 2 hunters' deadly brain diseases
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 months agoResearchers have drawn a possible link between the deaths of two hunters in the last couple of years...
A mysterious disease has been killing my family. Would I be next?
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe first sign of my father's decline came at his lunchtime basketball game. At 66-years-old, he'd...
Alzheimer’s passed to patients from corpses
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAn Alzheimer's brain (left) compared with a healthy brain - PASIEKA Alzheimer’s disease was passed to patients given hormones extracted from corpses,...
Alzheimer’s disease was passed between humans in rare, obsolete medical procedure, study finds
Euronews via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA new study has uncovered the first evidence that a few rare cases of Alzheimer’s disease may have...
Researchers identify cases of Alzheimer’s believed to be passed on from donors
PA Media: Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFive cases of Alzheimer’s have been identified which are believed to have arisen as a result of...
Texas Rancher Refuses To Kill Captive Deer Despite Contagious Brain Disease
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA rancher outside Dallas is refusing to exterminate his herd, despite several deer testing positive...
Case of Mad Cow Disease Reported in the Netherlands
Gizmodo via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy—more colorfully known as mad cow disease—has been detected on a farm in the Netherlands. It’s the first time...