Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: North Carolina hospital says at least 18 surgical patients exposed
Winston-Salem, North Carolina hospital, Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center announced Monday they learned that 18 neurosurgical patients within the last three weeks may have been exposed to a rare degenerative More...
New Hampshire patient dies from suspected Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, others may have been exposed
Health officials in New Hampshire have announced that a neurosurgery patient that has died is suspected to have had the prion disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), and warn that at least eight other patients More...
Canada: Fraser health officer confirms case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), says there is no outbreak
Responding to several media accounts of an outbreak of the deadly prion disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in Fraser, British Columbia (BC), Dr. Paul Van Buynder, Chief Medical Health Officer of Fraser Health More...
Scripps Research Institute: Tacrolimus and astemizole may be effective in treating human prion disease
Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans and animals, according to the CDC. Contracting this disease More...
Macao woman who had brain surgery in Hong Kong likely has Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Magnified 100X, and stained with H&E (hematoxylin and eosin) staining technique, this light photomicrograph of brain tissue reveals the presence of prominent spongiotic changes in the cortex, and loss of neurons More...
