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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: see prion prion , infectious agent thought to cause a group of diseases known as
prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Well-known prion diseases are Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and kuru in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform ..... Click the link for more information. . Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseor CJDRare fatal disease of the central nervous system. It destroys brain tissue, making it spongy and causing progressive loss of mental functioning and motor control. The disease commonly arises in adults between the ages of 40 and 70. Patients usually die within a year. There is no known cure. The disease is caused by a prion that builds up in neurons. Inherited or random mutation accounts for 99% of cases; the rest come from prion exposure during medical procedures and possibly from eating the meat of cattle with mad cow disease. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Surgical instruments used by surgeons for this type of operation were thrown away after each use amid fears of a "theoretical risk" of spreading variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease when reusable instruments were used, a top Department of Health advisor told the hearing. The original text has been revised and rearranged for the second edition, with new sections on global warming, socioeconomic aspects, recent outbreaks that have appeared since publication of the first edition--including severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease), new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD), and the increasing spread of HIV infection--and others that may prove significant in the future. The human form of Mad Cow disease, more formally known as new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (nv-CJD), is a chronic and incurable deterioration of the central nervous system, one of a larger class of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). |
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