In April 2025, three people in Oregon developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare, fatal neurological condition that is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease ...
US News & World Report: Brian Appleby, professor of medicine and director of the university’s National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center, explained how doctors can often identify Creutzfeldt ...
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 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 ...
September 27, 2012 — Making an early and accurate diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) is easier said than done, a new study shows. Researchers from University of California San ...
Two people in Oregon have died of a rare brain disorder that causes dementia-like symptoms without a clear cause or possible link tying the deaths together. Officials in Hood River County, home to ...
A substantial species barrier prevents chronic wasting disease (CWD), a cervid prion disease with unknown zoonotic potential, from being transmitted to humans, new NIH data suggested. Healthy human ...
Three people in a small Oregon county are believed to have contracted a rare brain disease with a 100% fatality rate. Within the last eight months, health officials in Hood River County have ...
Brad Ogborn Sr. and his son Bradley Ogborn were alike in a lot of ways. Both were husbands and fathers who had adopted and biological children. The older Ogborn founded Ogborn Plumbing Inc. with his ...