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How serious is prion disease?
All prion diseases are inevitably fatal; there are no known cures.
How do people get sporadic prion disease?
Patients with sporadic prion diseases may have a susceptibility polymorphism in their PRNP gene, and may have spontaneous mutations forming prion proteins.
Is a virus a prion?
No, although there is a hypothesis that prion diseases are associated with an undetected viral pathogen.
What is the treatment for prion disease?
There is no known effective treatment to arrest or cure prion diseases. Treatment focuses on alleviating the patient's symptoms, increasing their comfort, and palliative care.
What is a hereditary form of prion disease?
Prion diseases can also be hereditary, as seen in some cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS).
Is a prion a virus?
No, although there is a hypothesis that prion diseases are associated with an undetected viral pathogen.
How serious is prion disease?
All prion diseases are inevitably fatal; there are no known cures.
How do people get sporadic prion disease?
Patients with sporadic prion diseases may have a susceptibility polymorphism in their PRNP gene, and may have spontaneous mutations forming prion proteins.
What is a well known prion disease?
There are multiple prion diseases, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or "mad cow disease."
Is a virus a prion?
No, although there is a hypothesis that prion diseases are associated with an undetected viral pathogen.
What is the treatment for prion disease?
There is no known effective treatment to arrest or cure prion diseases. Treatment focuses on alleviating the patient's symptoms, increasing their comfort, and palliative care.
What diseases can you catch?
infectious diseases (those with bacterial or virus, or prion) you can also "catch" chemical based diseases such as contamination burns if you come into contact with someone with the chemicals on them.
What one of these is an infectious protein?
They are called Prion. This is the definition I fount at wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn: "an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system".
What is a hereditary form of prion disease?
Prion diseases can also be hereditary, as seen in some cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS).
Who first studied prion disease?
Research on prion diseases was founded by Dr. Stanley Prusiner, a neurologist at the University of California San Francisco. He spent two decades working on the revolutionary topic of self-reproducing prions.
Scrapie in sheep Mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt Jakob syndrome in humans are examples of diseases that are caused by?
Prion
What fights off diseases?
Innate and acquired immunity
