The latest CJD News & vCJD News & Mad Cow Disease News articles published daily. Includes news on creutzfeldt-jakob disease (CJD), variant-creutzfeldt jakob disease (vCJD), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or Mad Cow Disease) and spongiform encephalopathies of other animals (Scrapie).
Farmed Fish May Pose Risk For Mad Cow Disease
18 June 2009
University of Louisville neurologist Robert P. Friedland, M.D., questions the safety of eating farmed fish in the June issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, adding a new worry to concerns about the nation's food supply...
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Prevalence Of Variant CJD Agent In Britain Remains Uncertain
22 May 2009
First results from a large tissue survey in Britain of the agent that causes variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) are unable so far to establish that the prevalence is lower than that given by previous estimates...
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Research Will Lead To Better Understanding Of Genetic Basis Of Disease
25 April 2009
The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health have announced that an international consortium of researchers has published the genome of domestic cattle, the first livestock mammal to have its...
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