Read official statements, frequently asked questions, and more. You will also find a Comparative Risks Faced by Average American. This site contains an article about prion disease which was written by Dr. Stanley Prusiner, a scientist who originally proposed the prion theory. The article has some information about Creutzfeldt-Jackob disease. Here from PubMed you can search the database for listing of articles with information about Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.
Some articles have abstracts.
You will also find ordering information. Here you will find an image of the brain of a sheep. It is typical of the kind of changes seen in all of the spongiform encephalopathies, including BSE in cattle and CJD in humans. On this page you can read an article about Dr. Stanley Pruisiner winning the 1997 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his groundbreaking discovery and definition of the disease-causing agents that are called prions. You will also see pictures.