Prion diseases are fatal neurodegenerative disorders with known natural occurrence in
humans and a few other mammalian species. The diseases are experimentally …

Prion diseases range from being highly infectious, for example scrapie and CWD which
show facile transmission between susceptible individuals, to showing negligible horizontal …

CWD is an emergent prion disease that now affects cervid species on three continents. CWD
is efficiently spread in wild and captive populations, likely through both direct animal contact …

Simple Summary Classical scrapie is a prionic, neurological, consumptive, and chronic
disease that affects naturally domestic small ruminants. It was initially described in the UK …

Prion diseases are transmissible neurodegenerative disorders that affect humans and
ruminant species consumed by humans. Ruminant prion diseases include bovine …

Host‐parasite dynamics and strategies for managing infectious diseases of wildlife depend
on the functional relationship between disease transmission rates and host density …

Prion diseases are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases associated with a protein-
based infectious agent, termed prion. Compelling evidence suggests that natural …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been identified in 30 states in the United States, four
provinces in Canada, and recently emerged in Scandinavia. The association of CWD prions …

Prion diseases are sub-acute neurodegenerative diseases that affect humans and some
domestic and free-ranging animals. Infectious prion agents are considered to comprise …

We challenged reindeer by the intracranial route with the agent of chronic wasting disease
sourced from white-tailed deer, mule deer, or elk and tested for horizontal transmission to …