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CJD

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CJD
abbr.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

CJD
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Q. Recently i heard about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Recently i heard about Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. I like to know (To ask the Secretary of State for Health), how many people under the age of 20 years in each of the last five years have suffered from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; and of these how many had not had any growth treatment previously? How serious is it?

A. i found some statistics about what you wanted, but it's only until 1994 :(
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol2no4/holman2.htm

but it's very elaborated and might give you a clue..

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Sc]) was identified in the retina and optic nerve in patients with variant CJD (vCJD) and sCJD (5,6), and CJD has been transmitted by corneal transplantation (7,8).
CJD has occasionally been transmitted through blood or infected instruments or tissue.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the deaths raise concern because all three were under 30, while CJD usually only strikes people older than 45.
 
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