Disease name: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), named after Hans Creutzfeldt and Alfons Jakob, two German doctors who first described the disease in the 1920s. Affected populations: CJD affects around ...

Three people in a small Oregon county are believed to have contracted a rare brain disease with a 100% fatality rate. Within the last eight months, health officials in Hood River County have ...

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Two people have died and a third remains under investigation after health officials in Hood River County identified multiple cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare but deadly brain disorder ...