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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