The Pennsylvania Game Commission has announced that two deer have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a new area. The adult male deers who tested positive were in Luzerne County and ...

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 ...

The most common prion disease in people is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Another prion disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), has a similar name but is a different, much rarer ...

Concerns were raised in April last year that the disease had already spread to humans and been diagnosed as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). But researchers later pushed back on this, saying that ...

Prion diseases such as CWD, mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are typically spread by ingestion, inhalation or by mouth. When a deer licks the saliva, feces or blood from of an already ...

Anastasi’s long-time friend, Alexis Miller, confirmed the news via social media, revealing that the actress succumbed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a hereditary condition in her family.

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. The treatment ...

Lady Gaga, 38, graced the 2025 Grammys red carpet looking incredibly edgy in a voluminous black gown, which looked straight out of her “Disease” music video that dropped in November.

News reports suggest that Baselga succumbed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare and progressive neurodegenerative disorder that tends to appear late in life and advances quickly.

The Canadian Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System (CJDSS) is operated by the Public Health Agency of Canada and conducts prospective national surveillance for all types of human prion disease ...