Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Case Reported
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A university hospital on Thursday confirmed a 47-year-old man from Taegu had contracted Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the fatal neuro-degenerative illness that causes mental disorder and destroys memory.
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A new case of the livestock disease bluetongue has been found in a cow imported from Germany, two months after an earlier outbreak was said to have been contained.
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Britain said Tuesday a goat diagnosed as having the brain-wasting disease scrapie in 1990 may have had mad cow disease, but it would take up to two years of further tests to confirm this.
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Japanese health officials confirm their first case of variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease.
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OVER 6,000 patients were warned on Monday that they may have been exposed to vCJD, the human form of mad cow disease, through blood plasma products.
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A MAN with variant CJD is no longer terminally ill after being treated with an experimental drug following a legal battle. Schoolboy soccer star Jonathan Simms, 20 - diagnosed with the human
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Medical tests on a young Irishman have confirmed that he is suffering from variant CJD, the human form of mad cow disease, a Dublin hospital spokesman revealed.
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Sep 24, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - United Kingdom health officials this week began telling several thousand Britons they may face a slightly increased risk of contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) because they received blood products from
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A new case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, was discovered in Spain, thus raising the number of cases in the country to 20 since the first appearance of the disease in 2000.
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(Kingston-WABC, October 14, 2004) - New York state health officials are investigating an extremely rare and deadly brain disease. Want your Alerts via Email?
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Eating BSE-infected meat could lead to people developing different types of CJD, researchers have suggested. But Medical Research Council experts, writing in Science, say BSE may also manifest itself as sporadic CJD.
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Hospitals across the Midlands are trying to trace hundreds of patients who may have been exposed to brain-wasting vCJD through blood plasma products.
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Thousands of people have received letters warning they may be at increased risk of developing the incurable brain disease variant CJD as a result of medical treatment, it was announced yesterday.
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Under scrutiny the case in which a male patient died earlier this year, showing symptoms consistent with a rare and invariably fatal brain disease.
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MILWAUKEE - A virus recently discovered in Japan is suspected in two "crib deaths" in Wisconsin, raising new questions about how many of these mysterious tragedies might be caused by germs.    The cases mark the first time the virus has been identified in the United States...
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A rare brain disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was not responsible for the death of a Ulster County woman, according to the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center in Ohio.
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THE lives of the 1056 people exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease at the Royal Melbourne Hospital will never be the same. They now have a moral obligation to inform every hospital, doctor and dentist they