What other prion diseases exist?

The following diseases are believed to be caused by prions.

In animals:

• Scrapie in sheep and goats
• Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle ("mad cow disease")
• Transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) in mink
• Chronic wasting disease (CWD) in North American cervids (mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk and moose)
• Feline spongiform encephalopathy in cats
• Exotic ungulate encephalopathy (EUE) in nyala, oryx and greater kudu

In humans:

• Sporadic forms:
  • Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD)
  • Sporadic Fatal Insomnia (sFI)
• Genetic forms:
  • Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (fCJD)
  • Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS)
  • Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI)
• Acquired forms:
  • Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (iCJD)
  • Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)
  • Kuru