Ohio hunters have discovered 24 white-tailed deer infected with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), also known as 'zombie disease' ...

“We have provided clear evidence of infectious prions within the skin of patients dying of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,” coauthor Byron Caughey of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...

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

Her right arm started to fidget involuntarily. And a Jan. 31 lumbar puncture eventually solved the mystery: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease – a rare degenerative brain disease. It’s always fatal ...

Prion diseases are rare, fatal neurodegenerative disorders with no cure and limited treatment options. Despite their devastating effects, much about their mechanisms, transmission, and progression ...

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 ...

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.

If needed, the NPDPSC can offer financial and logistical autopsy assistance to families with loved ones suffering from suspected CJD and other prion diseases. Brain autopsies are coordinated to the ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Treatment Shows Promising Early Results Mar. 17, 2022 — A promising new treatment for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has shown 'very encouraging' early results ...

14-3-3 protein was accepted by the WHO as a surrogate biomarker for the premortem diagnosis of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. However, 14-3-3 protein cannot be used for large-scale screening ...