Ottawa to halt funding for tests to detect deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

The federal government is scrapping a program that performed autopsies on the brains of people suspected of having ...
NBC Montana

Dr. Byron Caughey of Rocky Mountain Laboratories dies at 68

A world-renowned scientist at Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton has died.Dr. Byron Caughey, a leading expert on prions, ...
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Fatal brain disease with 100% death rate kills 2 people in Oregon as one hangs on

Three people in a small Oregon county are believed to have contracted a rare brain disease with a 100% fatality rate. Within the last eight months, health officials in Hood River County have ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

3 cases of rare brain disease found in Oregon; 2 deaths reported

Two people have died and a third remains under investigation after health officials in Hood River County identified multiple cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but deadly brain disorder ...
Case Western Reserve University

Iron imbalance likely leads to brain cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

An iron imbalance caused by prion proteins collecting in the brain is a likely cause of cell death in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine ...