New variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in children

The pathological changes and clinical outcomes of this disease resemble Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, commonly known as ldquo; mad cow disease rdquo; ), And its appearance is closely related to BSE. In 1982, Prusiner named a group of diseases of chronic progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system as prion disease.

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