Scrapie | Naturally occurring disease of sheep and goats | Kuru | Confined to Papua New Guinea |
| | | Related to cannibalistic mourning rituals |
TME | Transmissible mink encephalopathy, a disease of farmed mink | CJD | The most common human prion disease. First described in 1921 |
| | | Exists in four forms:
Sporadic
Genetic
Iatrogenic
Variant (described 1996) |
CWD | Chronic wasting disease of deer, confined to North America | GSS | Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, a rare autosomal dominant hereditary disease |
BSE | Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, disease of cattle first reported 1987 | FFI | Fatal familial insomnia, a rare autosomal dominant hereditary disease |
BSE related diseases | Transmission of BSE to cats (FSE) and other animals | | |