Sunday, 21 December 2014

First Successful Vaccine to Fight Chronic Wasting Disease in Deer

Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have developed a vaccine to fight chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal brain disorder among deer which is caused by unusual infectious proteins known as prions. This vaccine will help protect U.S. livestock from contracting the disease, and prevent similar brain infections in humans caused by prions, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, familial insomnia, and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy. Researchers used Salmonella ...




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