Three rare, fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease cases were reported in Hood River County, Oregon. Two people have died. There's ...

Epidemiologist Elizabeth Schiffman, who supervises the Vectorborne Diseases Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health, ...

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Health officials in Hood River County, Ore., are investigating three cases of Creutzfeld Jakob disease. Two have died and a ...

Three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have been reported in Hood River County, Oregon, including two deaths. The CDC and ...

A team at the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) has developed an innovative gene-therapy strategy ...

The rare and deadly disorder is caused by infectious proteins ... Microscope photo of brain tissue of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has seen three cases in a single Oregon county ...

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Developing drugs to treat rare diseases is both a noble cause and a risky business. Rare diseases are typically deadly, debilitating, and devastating for patients and their families, so developing ...

Doctors in the UK have warned that several cases of a dangerous 'flesh-eating' bacterial infection affecting the external ...

A CNIC team has designed a gene-therapy strategy that could transform the treatment of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy type 5 (ARVC5), a rare and deadly heritable disease that ...