by Gary Chandler | Nov 14, 2016 | Contagion, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Infectious Disease, Prion Disease
CJD Often Misdiagnosed As Alzheimer’s Disease Maine Medical Center confirmed Friday that a patient treated at the hospital carried a rare, dangerous brain illness to which a “small number” of other patients may have been exposed, though the hospital called that...
by Gary Chandler | Dec 19, 2014 | Infectious Disease, Prion Disease
The Prion Spectrum Neurodegenerative disease is the fastest-growing cause of death in the world. It’s time to expand the conversation immediately. Dr. Stanley Prusiner, an American neuroscientist from the University of California at San Francisco, earned a Nobel...