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A small Canadian province feared it had a mystery neurological illness on its hands. The search for answers set off a battle for the truth.

At least five Australians have contracted a rare form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) after surgery that used a product made from human tissue. Professor Colin Masters, a pathology professor from ...

Further evidence validating tests for both sporadic or classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant CJD (vCJD) has been reported in 2 new studies, both published recently in JAMA Neurology. The ...

The Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a much-publicized prion disease that is linked to infection with BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) prions and is distinct from sporadic or ...

Eight years after Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease claimed the life of her husband of 46 years, Lynn Vrooman still feels the incurable brain disorder’s grip on her. Vrooman, a Lewisville resident, said a ...

In early 2019, officials at a hospital in the small Canadian province of New Brunswick noticed that two patients had contracted an extremely rare brain condition known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or ...

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