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Skin Test for Prion Disease

April 16, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

Mad cow disease
The “Mad Cow Epidemic,” starting in 1986, and the first confirmed US death from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in 1988, [MORE]

ALS, A Prion Disease?

April 8, 2014 | | Posted in Newsletter

ALS
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is an incurable motor neuron disease with no known cure.  It afflicts about 140,000 people each year [MORE]