Microscopic analysis by Montana scientists has revealed the first detailed structure of the pathogen that causes chronic ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), often referred to as "zombie deer disease," has been steadily spreading through deer ...

In 1995, however, 19-year-old UK resident Stephen Churchill became the first known case and later fatality of what eventually ...

Scientists say more cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) are still to emerge more than three decades after the "mad cow disease" scandal. Richard Knight, a senior neurologist based in ...

Bovine collagen, valued for biocompatibility and versatility, is gaining attention for medical devices in China as regulatory ...

Families of victims of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, are each to receive an interim compensation payment of £25,000, the Government announced today.

It was then that the first human cases of Mad Cow Disease, known as vCJD, began to emerge. Stephen Churchill was the first to die, in May 1995. He was 19. Two more young people died that year.

This is important as delay makes enrolment to clinical trials futile because of highly advanced disease. If a diagnosis ... The population comprised 91 sCJD, 7 vCJD, 2 iCJD and 3 IPD patients.

is the most well-known prion disease, characterized by rapidly progressing dementia, muscle stiffness, and other neurological symptoms. Other prion-related conditions include variant CJD (vCJD), ...

have fallen victim to a fatal condition known as new variant Creuzefeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD). Since the incubation time of the infection — the time from ingestion to the onset of symptoms ...

Prion diseases—including variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease—arise through an accumulation of misfolded, self-replicating proteins in the brain that ...

the number of reported cases of the disease shows a significant rising trend for the first time since 1995 when Stephen Churchill, 19, from Wilt-shire, became the first person to die from vCJD ...