Project Overview The California Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Surveillance Project, in collaboration with CDC and the California Department of Public Health, conducts enhanced surveillance for CJD, variant CJD (vCJD), and other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE) in the state of California. As of June 2007 CDPH added TSEs, including CJD, to the list of reportable diseases. We... Read More »

National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Foundation UCSF Memory and Aging Center – Rapidly Progressive Dementias The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) – Infectious Diseases Branch Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – CJD... Read More »

Health Program Manager Joelle Nadle, MPH Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Viral Respiratory Diseases Project Manager Pamala Daily Kirley, CACLS, MPH Influenza, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), COVID-19 Project Coordinators Maria Rosales Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs Susan Brooks, MPH Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Erin Parker, MPH Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Erin Whitney, MPH HPV-Impact Christopher Wegner, MPH Mpox Katie... Read More »

Please report all clinical cases diagnosed by a neurologist or confirmed by tissue pathology of human TSEs including: Sporadic CJD (sCJD), also known as Classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Familial CJD (fCJD) or inherited CJD Iatrogenic CJD (iCJD) Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Syndrome (GSS) Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) Case Notification The National Prion Disease Pathology... Read More »

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or TSEs are a group of fatal, rare, progressive neurological disorders that occur in humans and animals. TSEs are also referred to as prion diseases. The word prion is derived from the phrase proteinaceous infectious particle. Prions occur in both a normal form, which is a harmless protein that resides throughout the... Read More »