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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Also called: CJD 

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, degenerative brain disorder. Symptoms usually start around age 60. Memory problems, behavior changes, vision problems and poor muscle coordination progress quickly to dementia, coma and death. Most patients die within a year.
The three main categories of CJD are

• sporadic CJD, which occurs for no known reason
• hereditary CJD, which runs in families
• acquired CJD, which occurs from contact with infected tissue, usually during a medical procedure

Cattle can get a disease related to CJD called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or "mad cow disease." There is concern that people can get a variant of CJD from eating beef from an infected animal, but there is no direct proof to support this.

NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke

 

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National Institutes of Health

• The primary NIH organization for research on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke