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Creutzfeld-Jakob disease |
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Creutzfeld-Jakob disease A rare, often fatal disease of the brain, characterized by gradual dementia and loss of muscle control that occurs most often in middle age and is caused by a slow virus. Mentioned in: Autopsy |
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Mad cow is part of a family of brain disorders known as prion diseases, that include scrapie in sheep; chronic wasting disease in deer and elk; and new variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, or vCJD, in humans. The term "vCJD" refers to variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (sometimes also called "new variant CJD" or "nvCJD"), a form of the disease that scientists have shown is caused by exposure to mad cow disease. Chronology of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD) in the United Kingdom and other European countries, as of December 2000 |
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