The Luzerne County detections are 40 miles from the nearest wild CWD detection. They will ultimately result in disease ...

People who died with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were more likely to have been prescribed antidepressants before neurologic symptoms started, a retrospective study in Austria showed.

The incurable disease was first detected in Louisiana in 2022. With no vaccine, Louisiana has worked with hunters to track ...

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 ...

CJD is rare but fatal. The UK NHS lists possible symptoms including loss of intellect and memory, changes in personality, ...

The most common prion disease in people is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Another prion disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), has a similar name but is a different, much rarer ...

Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD is a neurological disease that affects animals such as deer, mule deer, elk, and moose ...

Dr Lopes, who wasn't involved in the new report, said: "The abnormal prions responsible for CWD are similar to those causing other prion diseases, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is reporting that two deer have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a new area of the state. The two deer, both adult males, were found in Luzerne ...

The reintroduction of processed animal protein (PAP) into some livestock feed is on the cards, with Defra now considering ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission said these newly detected cases were detected in Luzerne County. The deer were both adult ...