Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern for an incredibly rare disease. reading time 3 minutes A small Oregon ...

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Affected populations: CJD affects around 1 in a million people worldwide each year. In the U.S., approximately 350 cases of CJD are diagnosed annually. Males and females are equally likely to develop ...

A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report. reading time 3 minutes The grim reaper can sometimes take decades to ...

Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.(KNWA)–A national laboratory in Chantilly, VA has confirmed a preliminary diagnosis of an extremely rare condition from a patient at Washington Regional, according to Washington ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Health officials in Hood River County confirmed Monday that two local deaths have been linked to a rare brain disease within the last eight months. During that period, the county said ...

The disease is always fatal, with about 70% of those affected dying within a year of diagnosis. The most common type of CJD is "sporadic," meaning normal proteins in the brain spontaneously transform ...

After silently lurking for almost 50 years, a prion disease erupted in the brain of a woman in the US, triggering a rapid and severe neurological decline before taking her life. The source of the ...