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 ...

Three cases of a rare and fatal brain disorder have been identified in Hood River County, Oregon, local health officials have confirmed. The disease is related to mad cow disease and can lead to ...

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Catholic Medical Center in Manchester, N.H., and the Manchester Health Department announced eight patients may have been exposed to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Three cases of a rare, fatal brain disease have been reported by public health officials in Oregon’s Hood River County. The cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two dead, another infected, as rare brain disease reported in one Oregon county Two people are believed to have died of a rare, ...

Mad Cow Disease and vCJD: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention: By Anjali Srivastava Mad cow disease, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal brain disorder in cattle caused by ...

The deaths of two people and illness of one from a possible fatal and rare brain disease clustering in Oregon have public health officials and medical professionals worried. They fear a returning ...

Three cases and two deaths of a serious brain disease have been identified in northern Oregon in the last 8 months, officials in Hood River County have confirmed. "Two people in Oregon have died of a ...

She had just graduated from college when the frightening symptoms started to surface. The vivacious, easygoing 22-year-old suddenly became inexplicably irritable and short-tempered. Then her memory ...

BOISE, Idaho — From the moment Joan Kingsford first saw her husband stagger in his welding shop, she wanted two things: His recovery and to know what made him sick. She got neither. Alvin Kingsford, ...