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Which of the following is NOT a disease caused by prions?
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Influenza in humans
Prions are misfolded infectious proteins that contain no nucleic acid; they cause fatal brain-damaging diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
Scrapie in sheep and goats is a prion disease.
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, in cattle is a prion disease.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans is also a prion disease.
Influenza is caused by the influenza virus, an RNA virus, so it is not a prion disease.
Hence, Influenza in humans.
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