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in the opinion of most experts diseases which are caused by prions and comprise of scrapie in sheep and goats, BSE in cattle and other bovines, the chronic wasting disease of American cervids, and the Creutzfeldt-Jakob-disease, Kuru, the Gerstmann-Str?ssler-Scheinker-Syndrome (GSS) and the fatal familiar insomnia (FFI) in humans as well as related diseases in cats (feline spongiform encephalopathy, probably caused by the BSE agent) and mink (transmissible mink encephalopathy)
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| prion disease |
Any transmissible neurodegenerative disease believed to be caused by a proteinaceous infectious particle (also known as prion proteins, or PrPs). PrPs change other cellular proteins, producing intracellular vacuoles (“spongiform ch
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