And while scientists haven't been able to prove it yet, many believe that Stephen Churchill and the other victims in Great Britain may have gotten the variant form of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease after they ate meat from the tainted cows.
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During 1975-2008, a total of 132 cases of dura mater graft-associated
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (dCJD), a fatal neurodegenerative disease caused by replicating, transmissible prion proteins, had been identified in Japan and accounted for >60% of patients worldwide with dCJD.
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rapidly progressive, lethal neurodegenerative disease caused by aggregation of misfolded prion proteins.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a human disease like bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cows and chronic wasting disease in deer.
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Other prion diseases include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) in cattle and
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
The diagnosis of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is often a challenge for most physicians given its extremely low incidence and different dinico-pathological presentations.