Two people in Oregon have died from a rare, progressive brain disorder similar to "mad cow disease" that leads to dementia and is %100 fatal. The Hood River County Health Department confirmed the ...

As it turns out, the cows were infected with their own version of a prion disease—a condition formally called bovine spongiform encephalopathy, but more memorably known as mad cow disease.

Three cases of a rare and fatal brain disorder have been identified in Hood River County, Oregon, local health officials have confirmed. The disease is related to mad cow disease and can lead to ...

64. Two people in Oregon have died and a third person has a confirmed case of the mad cow-like brain disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, an incurable rare neurologic disorder, but health officials ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a baby boomer who was born in 1949 ... Should I get vaccinations for these old diseases now that children aren't being vaccinated for them? I don't want to suffer from ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a baby boomer who was born in 1949 ... Should I get vaccinations for these old diseases now that children aren’t being vaccinated for them? I don’t want to suffer from a childhood ...