Prion is a portmanteau word of the two words protein and infection.
A prion.
If you are talking about the Kuru Disease, the scientific name is Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Prion.
Prion Prion
Antarctic Prion was created in 1789.
Fairy Prion was created in 1820.
Fulmar Prion was created in 1912.
Salvin's Prion was created in 1912.
Secondary structure of prion proteins in prion disease like Creutz feldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is
Extremely rare. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, the scientific name for mad cow disease) is caused by an infectious misfolded protein called a prion. This prion has been all but eradicated from the world and human cases of variant Creutzfeld-Jacobs Disease (vCJD, the name of the disease in humans caused by the BSE prion) have fallen to almost none.
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Broad-billed Prion was created in 1777.