Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and the CJD Foundation on Tampa talk radio
This Sunday, Mar. 8 at 5 pm ET on the Tampa talk radio program, Outbreak News This Week Radio Show, host and Editor of the website, Outbreak News Today, Robert Herriman will be looking at the topic of prion disease More...
Texas: Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease death confirmed, infection likely occurred overseas
Laboratory tests have confirmed a diagnosis of variant CJD (a fatal brain disorder) in a patient who recently died in Texas. The confirmation was made when laboratory results from an autopsy of the patient’s brain More...
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...
Suspect case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease investigated in Brazil
The death of a 70-year-old man from Belo Horizonte, Brazil is being investigated by health authorities as possibly being caused by the prion disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), according to a Wall Street More...
New Hampshire patient confirmed positive for Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
In a follow-up to a story Sept. 5, a Catholic Medical Center neurosurgery patient who was suspected of dying from the prion disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), has tested positive for the disease, according More...
My list of the five deadliest communicable diseases
I was reading a very interesting article entitled “The Five Deadliest Diseases in History” ( no longer available, unfortunately) where the author looked at the deadliest diseases in history in terms of number 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...
