Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a rare, rapidly worsening brain disorder caused by misfolded prion proteins. It can be diagnosed definitively only at autopsy. Sporadic disease accounts for about 85% ...

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 ...

Disease name: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), named after Hans Creutzfeldt and Alfons Jakob, two German doctors who first described the disease in the 1920s. Affected populations: CJD affects ...

Researchers are now racing to come up with strategies to at least slow the spread of the disease in deer and reduce the ...

Chronic Wasting Disease was detected in a deer in Carbon County for the first time, the Pennsylvania Game Commission ...

Jan. 14, 2025 — Researchers have developed a gene-editing treatment for prion disease that extends lifespan by about 50 percent in a mouse model of the fatal neurodegenerative condition.

U.S. researchers say it’s time to look beyond deer when watching for chronic wasting disease exposure and infection, ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is reporting that two deer have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a new ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is often called the human ... the CDC has stated that it is important to keep the agents of all known prion diseases from entering the human food chain ...

When the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease was first discovered in Pennsylvania deerhalf a state away, locally the reaction was one of superficial concern. Wishful thinking was that the always-fatal ...

The scans and corresponding reports of 103 CJD patients were reviewed. The population comprised 91 sCJD, 7 vCJD, 2 iCJD and 3 IPD patients. The number of scans with DWI is shown as is the ...