The Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a much-publicized prion disease that is linked to infection with BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) prions and is distinct from sporadic or ...

Haemophiliacs who fear they have been exposed to plasma derived from a blood donor later found to have vCJD, the human form of mad cow disease, have been urged to contact their doctors.

Researchers in the United Kingdom have reported the country's second case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) thought to be associated with blood transfusion. The patient involved had a ...

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 ...

Amyloid fibrils are thought to be linked directly to manifestation of diseases such as vCJD (although cause and effect has not been rigorously shown); these fibrils can be deposited in tissue ...