Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease CJD
http://www.cjdfoundation.org/cjddisease.html Prion diseases are a group of rare, invariably fatal brain disorders which occur both in humans and certain animals. They first came to public attention in the mid 1980s in the form of the BSE epidemic in the United Kingdom. BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) is a prion disease in cattle. Tissue from infected animals … Read more
Fatal Familial Insomnia
What is Fatal Familial Insomnia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a very rare autosomal dominant inherited prion disease of the brain. It is almost always caused by a mutation to the protein PrPC, but it can also develop spontaneously in patients without the inherited mutation in a variant called sporadic fatal insomnia (SFI). The … Read more
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