Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob ... disease specialist unit could facilitate earlier diagnosis ...

In humans, a very similar disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob causes slow degeneration of the brain. It is believed that mad cow disease in humans is a new variant of that disease. How common is mad cow ...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help explain why the disease hasn’t made the leap to humans.

The diseases include Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease." They affect the brain, disrupting or destroying neurons in large ...

Scientists say more cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob ... disease. Annie McVey In 1996 10 people were known to have contracted a human form of the disease - vCJD. VCJD progressively attacks the brain ...