A woman in Marin County has recently, while a second dweller is ailing with an extremely atypical degenerative brain ailment that is sporadically allied to the dangerous mad-cow disease, though it has been cleared by state officials on Thursday that none of the two cases was infectious and possibilities of any kind of public health threat is not in prospect.

Both the patients have been identified suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob ailment, which is associated by a loudening of brain's ruptured proteins and has a great tendency of inspiring early dementia. Creutzfeldt-Jakob ailment is almost always fatal, with the majority of patients dying within the first year of diagnosis.

Earlier on Thursday, it was confirmed by officials after carrying out a variety of lab assessments that the two cases was absolutely having no relationship with the "mad cow" kind of Creutzfeldt-Jakob, and they added that it is extremely unfeasible that the second reported case had much to do with the so-called mad-cow disease.

In this regard, a statement released by the state public health department has claimed that, "We have no evidence that suggests a causal linkage between the suspect cases nor is there any evidence to suggest a risk in food supply".

Also, public health officials in Marin County have cleared that the cases are currently under analysis, though they added that there stands no threat whatsoever of the ailment being infectious in any form.

The Creutzfeldt-Jakob ailment is very uncommon, and around 300 cases are found all over the United States on a yearly basis, while California reports a mere 30 cases of the potentially terminal Creutzfeldt-Jakob. The stats have been confirmed by officials from UCSF and Stanford.

In addition, they added that the majority of cases come into picture all of a sudden and out of unexplained and unrecognizable reason, with inheritance being one of the reasons behind eruption of the said disease.