Chronic Wasting Disease – Prions
About the Lecture
The lecture Chronic Wasting Disease – Prions by Vincent Racaniello, PhD is from the course Microbiology: Introduction.
Included Quiz Questions
Why do prions constitute a threat to the food supply?
- Consumption of contaminated meat may transmit TSE to humans.
- Humans may sporadically develop prion disease.
- Scrapie can be transmitted to mice.
- Humans may transmit prion disease to other humans via corneal transplants.
Which of the following does NOT explain why prion diseases are thought to be a serious health concern?
- They involve collections of several different parasites all working together.
- They are uniformly undetectable before symptoms develop.
- No diagnostic tests exist that can tell whether a person is infected with a prion.
- There are no effective treatments to cure a prion disease.
- They involve an incubation period and symptoms that involve neurological problems.
Chronic wasting disease affects which of the following animals?
- Elk
- Goat
- Cow
- Hen
- Turkey
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Author of lecture Chronic Wasting Disease – Prions
Vincent Racaniello, PhD
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