So far there have been around 75 deaths nationwide from new variant CJD. Five of these have been in Leicestershire and four of those victims lived within two miles of the picturesque farming ...

There is an important distinction between "classical" CJD that has no known cause, and "variant" CJD triggered by eating beef infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. How did ...

A few years later, we learned that people could catch a variant form of CJD from eating mad cows. The mad cow epidemic and ...

Bruce, M.E. et al. Transmissions to mice indicate that ‘new variant’ CJD is caused by the BSE agent. Nature 389, 498–501 (1997).

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 ...