Prion diseases

Types

  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) 
  • Kuru  
    • The Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea practice funerary cannibalism, including the consumption of brains, which resulted in the spread of a prion disease known as "Kuru".
  • Fatal familial insomnia (FFI)
  • Sporadic fatal insomnia (sFI)
    • This is a noninherited variant of fatal insomnia. This is caused by a sporadic PrPC mutation.

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