Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern ...

UK surveillance study identifies six paediatric cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; no new cases have been detected since 2003.

A total of three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and incurable brain condition, have been detected in Hood River ...

The discovery of ‘new variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was announced in March 1996. By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the ...

Latest figures show that variant CJD (vCJD) has claimed 122 lives since it ... Eight people thought to have the incurable disease are still alive. Scientists from the National CJD Surveillance ...

Researchers in the United Kingdom have reported the country's second case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) thought to be associated with blood transfusion. The patient involved had a ...

Families of victims of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, are each to receive an interim compensation payment of £25,000, the Government announced today.

Deaths typically occur 12 months after infection. open image in gallery Microscope photo of brain tissue of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has seen three cases in a single Oregon county ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob is a rare brain disorder caused by infectious proteins called prions, which causes rapid, progressive ...

Three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) detected in Hood River County in eight months Two people have died; one case ...

Health officials are investigating three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a rare and fatal brain disorder, identified in Hood River County over the past eight months, the county health ...