CJD is rare but fatal. The UK NHS lists possible symptoms including loss of intellect and memory, changes in personality, ...

MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirms the first positive test result for chronic waste disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Manitowoc County. The deer was ...

HSV-2 causes lesions, such as sores and blisters, to form on the skin. The virus is transmissible through skin-to-skin contact, and transmission can occur even when a person does not have any ...

When these substances enter the brain, they can cause a neurological condition called hepatic encephalopathy. Hepatic encephalopathy typically presents with confusion, lethargy, and sometimes dramatic ...

Opens in a new tab or window In early 2024, we reported new research that suggested Alzheimer's disease may be transmissible under rare conditions. The study fueled debates in the Alzheimer's ...

"Our new method provides a way to show, surprisingly quickly, whether there are new transmissible variants of pathogens circulating in populations -- and it can be used for a huge range of ...

Background and Objectives: Developmental and epileptic encephalopathies (DEEs) are a group of neurological disorders characterized by early-onset seizures that are often resistant to treatment, by ...

Encephalopathy is a syndrome that involves global brain dysfunction. Encephalopathies have varying aetiologies: causes include for example ischaemic or traumatic brain injury, infectious agents ...

The clinical presentation of HE varies widely by disease severity and neurocognitive impairment. In MHE, patients might not have obvious clinical changes but instead may have abnormal psychometric ...

CWD is in the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) family of diseases that includes mad cow disease (BSE) in cattle, scrapie in sheep and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. There is no ...