Today is Rare Disease Day, and in honour of the occasion, people are just learning about a 'laughing sickness' that kills ...

On Rare Disease Day, we highlight one rare brain disease discovered in the 1950s with a back story as harrowing as the ...

Today is Rare Disease Day, and to mark it, we're taking a look at one condition that killed all those who contracted it in a ...

This sometimes meant they consumed abnormally folded proteins, called prions, that can cause a fatal neurodegenerative condition called kuru – which is related to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

You have full access to this article via your institution. Palsson, P. A., Pattison, I. H., and Field, E. J., in Slow, Latent and Temperate Virus Infections, edit. by ...

One disease that is now considered rare has taken people on social media by surprise thanks to its concerning symptoms. Kuru, also known as "laughing disease" or "laughing death", was much more ...