Hunters warned after Florida’s latest deer infection The post Florida Confirms a Second Case of ‘Zombie Deer Disease’: What ...

The most common cause of inherited prion diseases is the E200K mutation of the prion protein (PrP). It is often thought that this mutation causes disease by making PrP more susceptible to misfolding ...

Two people have died and a third remains under investigation after health officials in Hood River County identified multiple cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but deadly brain disorder ...

When Sonia Vallabh learned she has the genetic mutation for prion disease, she and her husband dropped everything to change careers. Today, they lead a Harvard/MIT lab searching for a cure. They ...

November is prime mating season for white-tailed deer. It's not too hard to see deer today, but around 100 years ago they ...

A Portage County deer farm has been placed under quarantine by state agriculture officials after a buck on its premises ...

Officials won't know whether the deer was ill until Kentucky Fish and Wildlife biologists test tissue samples.