A small Canadian province feared it had a mystery neurological illness on its hands. The search for answers set off a battle ...
People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed. Compared ...
Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...
Two people have died and a third remains under investigation after health officials in Hood River County identified multiple cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but deadly brain disorder ...
A cluster of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease cases have been reported out of Hood River County, Ore. The disease is caused by misfolded proteins, or prions, which are also the cause of a disease in deer ...
Canadians originally diagnosed with a mystery brain disease had other, well-known neurologic conditions, cross-sectional data suggested. The study assessed 25 of 222 cases listed in public health ...
Affecting both people and animals, prion diseases are degenerative brain disorders that can debilitate or kill their victims. The most common form of prion disease affecting humans is sporadic ...