A deadly prion disease is taking off at Dell Creek Feedground, and the next four months could be pivotal and a harbinger of ...

We may have been overestimating the role of a pathological class of misfolded protein in neurodegenerative disease.

Chronic wasting disease, a prion protein disease that is fatal in elk, deer and other cervids, has spread rapidly across the ...

A deer next to the Bill Riley Trail in Des Moines on Dec. 28, 2024. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital Dispatch) ...

Iowa is shifting focus from eradicating chronic wasting disease to instead “mitigating its spread and managing its impacts.” ...

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The number of deaths caused by prion diseases reaches about 30,000 annually. Only 5 months pass from the diagnosis of seemingly healthy patients to the fatal outcome of this neurodegenerative ...

Chronic wasting disease, a prion protein disease that is fatal in elk, deer, and other cervids, has spread rapidly across the United States since it was first identified in 1967. CWD has now reached ...