Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is also a type of disease that occurs in humans. Infectious spongiform encephalopathy is divided into two varieties: ordinary and variant. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can be divided into three types according to the pathogenesis of sporadic, hereditary and iatrogenic (infection caused by medical procedures). The cause of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is unknown, and it accounts for 85 to 90% of all Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease patients; the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is contagious, and the past cases only occurred in headhunters. New variants in recent years may be infected by eating or contacting sick cows with mad cow disease. Cortical-striatum-spinal cord degeneration (CJD) is a spreadable and fatal disease of the central nervous system, characterized by rapid progressive dementia and focal lesions of the cerebral cortex, basal ganglia, and spinal cord.

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