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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Reaching back to the 1980s raises some eyebrows, linking to the timing of another prion disease epidemic.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018
• No case of human prion disease has been associated with CWD.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Feb. 2018
• Neither approach appears likely to work for prion disease.
  — Scientific American, 29 Feb. 2020
• Once established in the victim, prion disease destroys the human nervous system.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 6 Feb. 2018
• People who have suffered from prion diseases will not be eligible.
  — Henry Alford, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
• The claim originates from a paper (likely not peer-reviewed) published earlier this year that asserts the mRNA component of the vaccine causes prion disease.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
• Unlike the situation with the camel prion disease, BSE doesn’t easily jump from animal to animal.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 26 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• It’s a prion disease with similarities to mad cow disease, which is scientifically known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy.
  — Anton L. Delgado, The Arizona Republic, 29 May 2021

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024