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Prion diseases
Prion diseases are so called "slow virus" conditions caused by misformed and contagious proteins, which act like viruses in the brain. Conditions include Mad Cow Disease in cattle and a similar disease called Creutzfeldt_Jakob disease in humans.
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Can you get a prion diseases from gm food?
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Are the prion diseases going to ever cause a pandemic?
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Can you get prion diseases by eating anything other than brains?
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What is a prion disease?
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What are the symptoms of a prion disease?
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What is the most common way a person gets a prion disease?
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Why do prion diseases have such long incubation periods? Can they be stopped at all??
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Have we gotten ahead of the game on prion diseases? Or are prion diseases likely to be major social/public health problems down the road?
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Neurodegenerative diseases & prion diseases. Has anybody gotten mad cow from U.S. beef?
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How do I know if I am at risk for prion disease? PET scan?
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Could organ and blood donation cause prion disease?
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Can i get a prion disease from eating calf brains or only by handling uncooked ones?
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Are prions implicated in any human illness?
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How are prions related to viruses?
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How do prions multiply without nucleic acids?
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How do viruses and prions differ from each other?
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How do prions enter the body?
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Can you get prions from cold hot dogs ?
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What is necessary for the replication of a prion?
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What is a prion made of, and what happens when it gets inside you?
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Is it possible to get cancer by eating cancer prions?
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Could you tell me why do prions and other similar infectious particles accumulate in the nervous tissue and cause disease ?
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How does a prion harm an organism?
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What is the difference between an amyloid and a prion protein?
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If a prion is just misfolded proteins, is it dead or alive? Does it have "life" encoded inside it?
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What is the difference between an amyloid and a prion? Is Alzheimer's suspected to be from a prion?
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If prions are not alive and have no dna how could we tell if they are damaging nerve cells in the brain and body and what causes prions to damage us?
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When CJD is such a rare disease, why would a doctor declare a CJD diagnosis without a biopsy? Father had seizures, false positive prion test, dementia
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