Prion Diseases: Infection Protection

Prion disease (Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease (CJD), bovine spongiform encephalitis (BSE), “mad cow disease”, etc.) is a slowly evolving degenerative disease caused by different types of “infected proteins” that can be found in all tissues and secretions from infected humans and animals (scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease of deer, moose, etc.). It is believed that the “infection” may also be associated with special neurodegenerative forms of dementia and other neurological diseases.