| ▲ | chasil 8 hours ago | |||||||
Prion diseases include: -in sheep, scrapie -in humans, Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jacob -in cows, BSE ("mad cow") -in deer, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) -in cats, feline spongiform encephalopathy Scrapie is particularly known, deadly, and long-lived. The toxin proteins can survive for a decade in soil, and infect a new host years after it emerged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encep... | ||||||||
| ▲ | rf15 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||
They're all the same in my understanding, just named differently because they have been observed separately before any understanding about PrP existed. And yes, that means they're also all long-lived. These proteins do not decay like more useful molecules or more complex organic matter. | ||||||||
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