News tagged with 'Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease'

Mad cow disease is rare but if a person consumes any part of the diseased cow it always turns for humans into the fatal brain wasting Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. So the discovery of another animal with Mad Cow Disease is of concern especially since the U.S. has not banned one of the suspected modes of transmission.

Consumer action group Public Citizen is asking the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to stop the practice of using brain tissue, also known as dura mater, from cadavers to assist with surgery. The group claims that the technique increases the risk of spreading Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human form of mad co

Patients in a two hospitals in Denver and New Orleans may have been unintentionally exposed to the brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob, the human form of mad cow disease. Fourteen patients underwent medical procedures where tainted surgical instruments where used. The form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob that the patients may have