Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern ...

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (B.S.E.), nicknamed "Mad Cow Disease" was as unanticipated as AIDS, and is arguably as insidious. It arose from centuries of relative obscurity in sheep to sweep ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is related to mad cow disease, has resulted in two deaths in Oregon, according to the Hood ...

Hood River County in Oregon reported three cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare human brain disease very similar to ...

By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the most compelling being that BSE and vCJD produced an identical disease in conventional mice.

in response to the epidemic of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as "mad cow disease," which occurred in the United Kingdom during the 1980s. The center studies and tracks the ...