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Prion diseases and their transmission properties

Diseases caused by prions
Affected animal(s)Disease
sheepgoatScrapie[43]
cattleBovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), mad cow disease[43]
mink[43]Transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME)
white-tailed deer, elk, mule deer, moose[43]Chronic wasting disease (CWD)
cat[43]Feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE)
nyalaoryxgreater kudu[43]Exotic ungulate encephalopathy (EUE)
ostrich[44]Spongiform encephalopathy
(Has not been shown to be transmissible.)
humanCreutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD)[43]
Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (iCJD)
Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD)
Familial Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (fCJD)
Sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (sCJD)
Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome (GSS)[43]
Fatal familial insomnia (FFI)[45]
Kuru[43]
Familial spongiform encephalopathy[46]
Multiple System Atrophy (MSA): Not a TSE and is not by typical prions Prp/PrPSc but by a misfolded α-Synuclein.[47]

Until 2015 all known mammalian prion diseases were considered to be caused by the prion…

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