{"id":9259,"date":"2025-04-16T13:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=9259"},"modified":"2025-04-16T13:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:06:31","slug":"oregon-health-officials-investigate-rare-brain-disease-blamed-for-two-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/04\/16\/oregon-health-officials-investigate-rare-brain-disease-blamed-for-two-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon health officials investigate rare brain disease blamed for two deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/story\/2025-04-16\/oregon-health-officials-investigate-rare-brain-disease-blamed-for-two-deaths\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A cluster of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease cases have been reported out of Hood River County, Ore.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The disease is caused by misfolded proteins, or prions, which are also the cause of a disease in deer known as chronic wasting disease.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chronic wasting disease was discovered in deer last year in California and Washington. There have been no reports of infected deer in Oregon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Health officials in Hood River County, Ore., are investigating three cases of a rare and fatal brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two people have died and a third person is showing symptoms consistent with the disease. The disease has been confirmed in one of the deceased through an autopsy; the other two cases are considered probable, according to a statement from the Hood River County Health Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/story\/2025-04-16\/oregon-health-officials-investigate-rare-brain-disease-blamed-for-two-deaths\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Times Health officials in Hood River County, Ore., are investigating three cases of a rare and fatal brain disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Two people have died and a third person is showing symptoms consistent with the disease. The disease has been confirmed in one of the deceased through an autopsy; the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cwd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9260,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9259\/revisions\/9260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}