When BSE “mad cow disease” is passed to humans who eat meat from sick animals, it’s known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob ...

In 1995, however, 19-year-old UK resident Stephen Churchill became the first known case and later fatality of what eventually ...

Families of victims of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, are each to receive an interim compensation payment of £25,000, the Government announced today.

Bovine collagen, valued for biocompatibility and versatility, is gaining attention for medical devices in China as regulatory ...

have fallen victim to a fatal condition known as new variant Creuzefeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD). Since the incubation time of the infection — the time from ingestion to the onset of symptoms ...

the number of reported cases of the disease shows a significant rising trend for the first time since 1995 when Stephen Churchill, 19, from Wilt-shire, became the first person to die from vCJD ...

It was then that the first human cases of Mad Cow Disease, known as vCJD, began to emerge. Stephen Churchill was the first to die, in May 1995. He was 19. Two more young people died that year.

An important defining trait of strains is their specific propensity to induce disease across species ... behavior relates to the transmission of vCJD and sporadic CJD (sCJD) prions from humans ...