Sentences with phrase «fatal brain degeneration»
Researchers are reporting what they say is the most compelling evidence, to date, that the infectious proteins called prions that cause bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or «mad cow» disease, have infected humans, causing fatal brain degeneration.
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The fatal disease, which they have called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, causes degeneration of the brain.
Mitochondrial diseases include Leigh syndrome, a progressive and fatal disorder characterized by lesions on the brain that may lead to heart, kidney, vision and breathing complications, and Alpers Disease, a neurologic illness that causes seizures, dementia, spasticity, blindness, liver dysfunction and cerebral degeneration.