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CJD
Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (CJD) is a condition where brain damage is caused by abnormal proteins called prions. This damage occurs quickly and causes muscle spasticity and abnormal mental function.
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Who can get familial CJD?
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Is cjd be transmitted thru the air?
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What are the risk factors for sporadic CJD?
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Can people with CJD pass the illness to others?
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What are some things that increase the risk of cjd transmission?
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Can you diagnose somebody's CJD years and years before anything happens?
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Can I get CJD by eating beef?
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Is it possible to get CJD via blood?
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Transmission of creutzfeldt-jacob disease (cjd) has been proven between family members?
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If some of us got in contact with a saliva of an infected cjd person, how would you test if you caught it?
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What is Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)?
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What is Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)?
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What is Iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)?
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Do you have alzheimers symptoms if you have CJD symptoms?
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My husband died of CJD. How is it determined if it is contagious before the patient dies?
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Whats difference between cjd and bse?
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Should I be worried about CJD? I'm always paranoid about these types of diseases. How rare is it and what races are affected?
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I have cjd/bse, can I donate plasma?
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Is there a vaccine or medicine available that cures or prevents classic CJD?
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Can variant cjd through blood be transmitted through a cut on the finger?
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In Creutzfeldt Jacob Disease (CJD) and/or new variant CJD, is the classical/alternate complement pathway negatively affected in any way?
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A 41-year old female asked:
When CJD is such a rare disease, why would a doctor declare a CJD diagnosis without a biopsy? Father had seizures, false positive prion test, dementia
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What is necessary for the replication of a prion?
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What is a prion made of, and what happens when it gets inside you?
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