How to Use prion disease in a Sentence

prion disease

noun
  • At present, there are no cures available to treat prion disease.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • Once the prions were passed to cows, the cows developed a prion disease of their own (mad cow disease).
    — Fiza Pirani, ajc, 25 May 2018
  • The oraler will inevitably get water up his or her nose—risking brain-eating prion diseases—and bruise their knees.
    — Sophia Benoit, GQ, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Because the prion disease has sickened the entire nation now.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Jan. 2018
  • The most common prion disease in people is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • People who have suffered from prion diseases will not be eligible.
    — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • Mad cow disease, for example, is a prion disease that rooted from scrapie, a deadly disease that afflicts sheep.
    — Fiza Pirani, ajc, 25 May 2018
  • When the prion was injected into the brains of mice, the brains became spongy and riddled with holes, the telltale signs of prion disease.
    — Amber Angelle, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2010
  • Once established in the victim, prion disease destroys the human nervous system.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 Feb. 2018
  • Graham is in the lead on this because he was perceived to be what passes for a reasonable Republican in the era of the prion disease.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Sep. 2017
  • This rare and genetic prion disease claimed her mother’s life when Lenox and her brother Kip (Logan Miller) were very young.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Two months after a doctor diagnosed him with a fatal, neurodegenerative prion disease.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Reaching back to the 1980s raises some eyebrows, linking to the timing of another prion disease epidemic.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The letter also notes that lions help curb the spread among ungulates of chronic wasting disease, a highly contagious prion disease, by removing sick animals.
    — Byhannah Richter, science.org, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The prion disease, first identified in a Colorado research facility in the 1970s, has been making headlines for decades.
    — Christine Peterson, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Unlike the situation with the camel prion disease, BSE doesn’t easily jump from animal to animal.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Chronic wasting disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, a family of prion diseases that includes Mad Cow and scrapie.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 9 Dec. 2017
  • Although Alzheimer’s is not a prion disease, some separate research suggests that the two proteins that are hallmarks in Alzheimer’s disease — amyloid beta and tau — behave like prions.
    — Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Chronic wasting disease is a prion disease — a rare, neurodegenerative disorder caused by misfolded proteins, called prions, that damage brain tissue.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The claim originates from a paper (likely not peer-reviewed) published earlier this year that asserts the mRNA component of the vaccine causes prion disease.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2018
  • His family farm is in Richland County, Wisconsin, one of over 30 counties in that state dealing with positive cases of the fatal prion disease, which commonly infects elk and deer.
    — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2021
  • Humans can also get prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease and the rare Kuru, which was transmitted by the Fore people’s custom of eating their deceased as part of funerary rituals.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 6 Oct. 2017
  • Another prion disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), has a similar name but is a different, much rarer, disease, according to the Center of Disease Control.
    — Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 24 Sep. 2025

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