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Publication Date: February 23, 2026 - 05:00

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Ottawa to halt funding for tests to detect deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

February 23, 2026

The federal government is scrapping a program that performed autopsies on the brains of people suspected of having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the fatal neurodegenerative disorder that came to public prominence during the mad cow crisis of the late 1990s and early 2000s.



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