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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD), also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative disease. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] Early symptoms include memory problems, behavioral changes, poor coordination, and visual disturbances. [ 4 ]
Variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD), formerly known as New variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (nvCJD) and referred to colloquially as "mad cow disease" or "human mad cow disease" to distinguish it from its BSE counterpart, is a fatal type of brain disease within the transmissible spongiform encephalopathy family. [7]
Prion disease: Micrograph showing spongiform degeneration (vacuoles that appear as holes in tissue sections) in the cerebral cortex of a patient who had died of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. H&E stain, scale bar = 30 microns (0.03 mm). Specialty: Infectious diseases Symptoms: Dementia, seizures, tremors, insomnia, psychosis, delirium, confusion ...
Subsequently, 177 people (as of June 2014) contracted and died of a disease with similar neurological symptoms subsequently called (new) variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD). [ 68 ] [ 69 ] This is a separate disease from 'classical' Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease , which is not related to BSE and has been known about since the early 1900s.
It can sample multiple sample types, such as cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), brain, lymph nodes, blood, muscle, and skin, and so it is applicable to scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in cervids, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cows and sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans, amongst others. [5]
As of 24 January 2017, the disease had claimed 223 human victims worldwide (including 177 in the UK and 27 in France) [1] affected by symptoms similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a disease of the same nature as BSE. Communicated to the general public by the media, the crisis erupted in 1996.
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Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease: CKD Chronic kidney disease: CLOVES syndrome Congenital lipomatous overgrowth, vascular malformations, epidermal nevi, and skeletal/spinal abnormalities syndrome CML Chronic myelogenous leukemia: CMs Chiari malformations: CMT disease Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease: CMT1A Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease type 1A CMT1B