"prion disease" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2021 July 28, Barbara Casassus, “France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal brain disease strikes two lab workers”, in Science:",
          "text": "Five public research institutions in France have imposed a 3-month moratorium on the study of prions[…]after a retired lab worker who handled prions in the past was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the most common prion disease in humans.",
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        "transmissible spongiform encephalopathy"
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