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    Variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease (vCJD), formerly known as New variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease (nvCJD) and referred to colloquially as "mad cow disease"...
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    CreutzfeldtJakob disease (CJD), also known as subacute spongiform encephalopathy or neurocognitive disorder due to prion disease, is a fatal neurodegenerative...
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    encephalopathy. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease itself has four main forms, the sporadic (sCJD), the hereditary/familial (fCJD), the iatrogenic (iCJD) and the variant form...
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    weeks to months. Spread to humans is believed to result in variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease (vCJD). As of 2018, a total of 231 cases of vCJD had been...
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    United Kingdom BSE outbreak (category 1980s disease outbreaks)
    encephalopathy (BSE, also known as "mad cow disease"), and its human equivalent variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease (vCJD), in the 1980s and 1990s. Over four...
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    prions aggregate in brain tissue leading to nerve cell death. Variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease (vCJD) is the infectious form that comes from the meat of...
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  • worker was diagnosed with Variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease and came two years after the death of Émilie Jaumain from the same disease after acquiring it in...
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    The disease was therefore more prevalent among women and children. The epidemic likely started when a villager developed sporadic CreutzfeldtJakob disease...
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    (GSS), kuru, and variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease (vCJD). Similarities exist between kuru, thought to be due to human ingestion of diseased individuals,...
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    antibodies in women who have been pregnant. Following fears of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) being spread through the blood supply, the British...
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  • Jonathan Simms (category Deaths from CreutzfeldtJakob disease)
    was a man from Belfast, Northern Ireland, who contracted variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease (vCJD) in his late teenage years. He was given a post-diagnosis...
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    America in which the disease is endemic are Brazil and Venezuela as of 2021. Following an epidemic of variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease in the UK in the 1990s...
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    cow disease': What is BSE?". BBC. 18 October 2018. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020. "Variant CreutzfeldtJakob Disease, Current...
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    Prion (category Infectious diseases)
    chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle (mad cow disease), and CreutzfeldtJakob disease (CJD) in humans...
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  • Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System (CJDSS) is a unit of the Public Health Agency of Canada. It studies the various variants of Creutzfeldt-Jakob...
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    Amyloid (redirect from Amyloid disease)
    more than 50 human diseases, known as amyloidosis, and may play a role in some neurodegenerative diseases. Some of these diseases are mainly sporadic...
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    Cattle (redirect from Cattle diseases)
    the United Kingdom. BSE can cross into humans as the deadly variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease; 178 people in the UK had died from it by 2010. The gut flora...
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  • coincident ocular and central causes in a patient with Heidenhain variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease". Age and Ageing. 37 (2): 231–232. doi:10.1093/ageing/afm191...
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    90 species) Mammals portal List of animal names#squirrel Variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease (Kuru) from eating squirrel brains. Seebeck, J. H. "Sciuridae"...
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    misinformation is that seed oils are the root cause of most diseases of affluence, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and liver spots. These claims are...
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    (2004). "Mad cow disease in the United States: An update on bovine spongiform encephalopathy and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease". Clinical Microbiology...
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  • is a pathway for transmission of blood-borne ailments like variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease, AIDS, and others, which is why the test is no longer recommended...
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    (CJD) in humans. Beef brain consumption has been linked to Variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease outbreaks in humans which led to strict regulations about...
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    bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and new-variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease in humans.[unreliable medical source?] Based on studies, the...
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    Mad cow crisis (category Animal disease control)
    the UK and 27 in France) affected by symptoms similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a disease of the same nature as BSE. Communicated to the general public...
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    infected with chronic wasting disease may contain prions that could result in a human getting variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease. Antlers are also used in...
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  • following is a list of notifiable diseases arranged by country. Australia Hong Kong: List of statutory notifiable disease and case definitions; Centre for...
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    response to the United Kingdom BSE outbreak (mad cow disease) over fears that variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease in humans might be caused by the consumption of...
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  • infectious disease. In 2006, a working group named "classic CJD" as well as Variant CreutzfeldtJakob disease as two notifiable diseases. It is unknown...
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    1892 and 1906. The name Pick's disease was coined in 1922. This term is now reserved only for the behavioral variant of FTD, in which characteristic...
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