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Prion diseases and their transmission properties
| Affected animal(s) | Disease |
|---|---|
| sheep, goat | Scrapie[43] |
| cattle | Bovine 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) |
| nyala, oryx, greater kudu[43] | Exotic ungulate encephalopathy (EUE) |
| ostrich[44] | Spongiform encephalopathy (Has not been shown to be transmissible.) |
| human | Creutzfeldt–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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