Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly ...

This is when I was told that I could develop Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which I had no ... I could develop it at any time so I needed to routinely test for the rest of my life.

The discovery of ‘new variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was announced in March 1996. By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the ...