My understanding is that all the well known mammalian prion diseases are the same prion protein. The disease it causes has a variety of names in different conte

My understanding is that all the well known mammalian prion diseases are the same prion protein. The disease it causes has a variety of names in different contexts: CWD, vCJD, kuru, mad cow. There are some other suspected prions in fungi, and there's suspicion that some other human diseases are actually caused by an as-yet-unknown other kind of prion that affects a different protein, but the well-studied diseases are all misfoldings of essentially the same protein.