Prion Diseases

Active vaccine prevents mice from developing brain diseases

Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 8th, 2005

New York University School of Medicine scientists have created the first active vaccine that can significantly delay and possibly prevent the onset of a brain disease in mice that is similar to mad cow disease.

The new findings, published online in the journal Neuroscience, could provide a platform for the development of a vaccine to prevent a group of fatal brain diseases caused by unusual infectious particles called prions.

Although no cure for these diseases - which include scrapie, mad cow disease and chronic wasting disease - is on the horizon, many research groups in both the United States and Europe are working on prion vaccines. But...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2005-06-08)

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