Category: Prion Disease

Understanding How a Rare Brain Wasting Disease Hides in Neurons For Decades

Yale Medicine In April of this year, three people in Oregon developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare, fatal neurological condition that is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease. It impacts one or two people per million each year, making the chances of three cases emerging in the same small geographic […]

May 28, 2025