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.

A farmed white-tail deer from Osceola County was found with CWD.. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural ...

The preliminary structure of the misfolded protein that causes mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease looks like a coiled mattress spring. A study of deceased patients who received injections ...

Researchers said that in 2022, a 72-year-old man with "a history of consuming meat from a CWD-infected deer population," ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a rare brain disease that can cause rapid decline in a person’s cognitive health and can ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

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 ...

A recent revision to blood donation rules on Tuesday lifted restrictions for many Koreans that had spent time abroad in European countries.

It’s classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) and is similar to scrapie in sheep, mad cow disease in cattle, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. CWD spreads through ...