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  6. When Food Kills: BSE, E. coli, and Disaster Science by T. Hugh Pennington, 2003-11-27
  7. Sub-Acute Spongiform Encephalopathies: Sponsored by the Commision of the European Communities, Directorate-General for Agriculture, Division for the Coordination ... (Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine)
  8. Statistical Aspects of BSE and vCJD: Models for Epidemics (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability) by C A Donnelly, N M Ferguson, 1999-07-21
  9. Mad Cow Crisis: Health and the Public Good by Scott Ratzan, 1998-02-01
  10. The BSE Inquiry: Findings and Conclusions v. 1 (House of Commons Papers) by Lord Phillips of Worth, Nicholas Matravers, et all 2000-10-27
  11. Prion Protein Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)
  12. Premorbid changes found in Creutzfeldt-Jakob.(Clinical Rounds): An article from: Family Practice News by Amy Rothman Schonfeld, 2007-09-15
  13. Cannibals, Cows and the CJD Catastrophe by Jennifer Cooke, 2000-09-01
  14. Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food: Policy and Politics of Health Risk Management in Five Countries -- Asbestos and BSE (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries)

81. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, degenerative, invariably fatal brain disorder. It affects about one person in every one million people worldwide and about 200 people in the United States. CJD usually appears in later life and runs a rapid course. Typically, onset of symptoms occurs about age 60, and about 90 percent of patients die within 1 year. In the early stages of disease, patients may have failing memory, behavioral changes, lack of coordination and visual disturbances. As the illness progresses, mental deterioration becomes pronounced and involuntary movements, blindness, weakness of extremities, and coma may occur. There are three major categories of CJD:
  • In sporadic CJD , the disease appears even though the person has no known risk factors for the disease. This is by far the most common type of CJD and accounts for at least 85 percent of cases.
  • In hereditary CJD , the person has a family history of the disease and/or tests positive for a genetic mutation associated with CJD. About 5 to 10 percent of cases of CJD in the United States are hereditary.

82. BSE: McDonald's, Mad Cows And Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
McDonald's, Mad Cows and creutzfeldtjakob disease. LATEST NEWS - 24thOctober 96. Howard Lyman Press Conference - 27th March 96; McDonald's
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  • BSE same as CJD in humans - powerful new evidence
    24th October 1996
    A British scientific team says it has strong new evidence that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and BSE (the so-called Mad-Cow disease) are likely to be one and the same. They have discovered a critical similarity between the new type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease which has infected humans, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle. The finding adds powerful backing to claims that BSE has crossed the species barrier between cattle and humans. Many believe that humans may get the disease after eating infected beef. "Most of us felt that the connection was most likely" , said Dr. Michael Harrington, an expert on mad-cow disease at the California Institute of Technology
  • 83. NINDS Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Information Page
    More about creutzfeldtjakob disease, Studies with patients, Research literature, NINDScreutzfeldt-jakob disease Information Page Reviewed 08-01-2000
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    What is the prognosis? What research is being done? ... Related NINDS Publications What is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease? Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, degenerative, invariably fatal brain disorder. Typically, onset of symptoms occurs at about age 60.. There are three major categories of CJD: sporadic CJD, hereditary CJD, and acquired CJD. There is currently no single diagnostic test for CJD. The first concern is to rule out treatable forms of dementia such as encephalitis or chronic meningitis. The only way to confirm a diagnosis of CJD is by brain biopsy or autopsy. In a brain biopsy, a neurosurgeon removes a small piece of tissue from the patient's brain so that is can be examined by a neurologist. Because a correct diagnosis of CJD does not help the patient, a brain biopsy is discouraged unless it is need to rule out a treatable disorder. While CJD can be transmitted to other people, the risk of this happening is extremely small.

    84. All About Creutzfeldt-jakob-disease: Landwirtschaft Und Mensch In Der Angst Vor
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    85. Topic Tracks Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
    creutzfeldtjakob disease. and Mad Cow disease . Guides. Bastian, Frank O. (ed.).creutzfeldt-jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
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    86. Diseases And Conditions -- Discovery Health -- Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
    The classic form of creutzfeldtjakob disease, or CJD, is an infectiousdisease that causes progressive brain damage and death.
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    Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease By Danielle Zerr, MD Images (click to view larger image) The classic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD, is an infectious disease that causes progressive brain damage and death. New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease , or nvCJD, is a slightly different form of CJD. The new variant of CJD is most likely the human form of mad cow disease What is going on in the body? Both classic and new variant CJD are prion diseases. Prions are a modified form of a protein found on normal cell surfaces. Both diseases cause a buildup of prions in the brain. The increase in prions causes brain injury and degeneration. The same type of prion may cause both mad cow disease and nvCJD. The classic form of CJD may cause symptoms 15 months to 30 years after exposure. New variant CJD may take 5 to 10 years to develop after the person has been exposed to the prion. What are the signs and symptoms of the disease? The classic form of CJD causes rapid, progressive dementia. The individual becomes increasingly more confused and disoriented. The person may have visual and speech impairments, muscle spasms, and personality changes. New variant CJD has different symptoms from the classic form. Early in the course of the disease, the person may have psychiatric disorders and altered sensations. Later, the person can develop

    87. Expression Profiling In Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
    Expression profiling in sporadic creutzfeldtjakob disease. Wei Xiang1 , Otto Windl 1 , Alexander Kohlmann 2 , Martin Dugas 3 , Ingo
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    Expression profiling in sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
    Wei Xiang , Otto Windl , Alexander Kohlmann , Martin Dugas , Ingo Westner , Manuela Neumann , Hans A. Kretzschmar
    Institute for Neuropathology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 81377 Munich, Germany
    Laboratory for Leukemia Diagnostics, Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 81377 Munich, Germany
    Department of Medical Informatics, Biometrics, and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, 81377 Munich, Germany
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    88. Nature Publishing Group
    doi10.1038/73098 March 2000 Volume 6 Number 3 pp 258 259 'New variant' creutzfeldt-Jakobdisease and bovine spongiform encephalopathy Moira E. Bruce
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    90. BSE (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease)
    Title, Apoptosis in relation to neuronal loss in experimental creutzfeldtjakob diseasein mice. Title, Chronology of the new variant of creutzfeldt-jakob disease.
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    Apoptosis in relation to neuronal loss in experimental Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in mice

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    Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and other prion diseases: an update
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    Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and BSE

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    D JesionekKupnicka, R Kordek, J Buczynski, PP Liberski Title Apoptosis in relation to neuronal loss in experimental Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in mice Full source Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis, 2001, Vol 61, Iss 1, pp 13-19 Author Keywords Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; apoptosis; TUNEL; neuronal loss; PrP-prion diseases Keywords PRION PROTEIN-FRAGMENT; PROGRAMMED CELL-DEATH; SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE; DNA FRAGMENTATION; MURINE SCRAPIE; NEUROTOXICITY; ACTIVATION; CLEAVAGE; ABSENCE TGA/Book No.

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    Canadian man dies from variant creutzfeldtjakob disease Last Updated Fri,09 Aug 2002 71325 Variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease (Variant CJD).
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    92. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Information And Resources On Helpguide
    About creutzfeldtjakob disease. creutzfeldt-jakob disease is a fataldisease. The Online Information on creutzfeldt-jakob disease. NINDS
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    About Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
    Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is a fatal disease. The symptoms include poor memory, behavior changes and lack of coordination. There is rapid mental deterioration and involuntary movements. Incontinence and seizures may occur later in the disease. It affects men and women between the ages of 50-75 years. The disease is so rare that the incident rate is one case per million people a year. There is no definitive diagnosis without an autopsy. There are support groups and training to provide quality care for those caring for someone with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). The CJD Support Network provides emotional and financial support. There is a national helpline giving information of CID and is staffed by professional advisors.
    Online Information on Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
    NINDS Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Information Page - CJD information sheet including treatment, prognosis, research, and 3 major categories of CJD. Compiled by NINDS, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

    93. The Royal College Of Ophthalmologists Of London - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD
    Back. creutzfeldtjakob disease (CJD) and Ophthalmology. 1. Background. A NewVariant of creutzfeldt-jakob disease in the UK, Lancet 1996; 347 921-5.
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    Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Ophthalmology
    1. Background Patients with classical (sporadic) CJD are predominantly in their 60s and as such may come into contact with ophthalmologists because of cataract, glaucoma and macular degeneration, or because of visual symptoms caused by their condition . Although there is no clear evidence of the transmission of spongiform encephalopathy from one patient to another by ophthalmic surgery other than through corneal transplantation , it has been accepted for many years that instruments used on patients with known or suspected CJD undergoing any surgical procedure, should be destroyed The number of individuals in the UK who may develop variant CJD (vCJD), believed to be the human form of BSE, is unknown but may yet number tens of thousands who may be infectious before their symptoms develop. The Department of Health (DH) has identified ophthalmology as an area of risk second only to neurosurgery, though other forms of surgery, e.g. on the gut and tonsils, could also lead to contamination of instruments by prions which routine decontamination does not eradicate. Research is in progress to establish the efficacy of current and improved methods of decontamination in removing prion protein. The only certain way to avoid the as yet unquantifiable risks of ophthalmic devices and instruments being vectors of transmissible prions would be for them all to be disposable, though this is currently impossible without severely compromising patient care. In 1999, the Medical Devices Agency issued Advice Notes on contact lenses

    94. Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease By Scott H. McMillan
    Familial creutzfeldtjakob disease by Scott H. McMillan In 1920, a strange phsycodisorderwas described by HG creutzfeldt, The symptoms of this disease
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    Familial Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
    by Scott H. McMillan
    In 1920, a strange phsycodisorder was described by H.G. Creutzfeldt, The symptoms of this disease included a relapsing course with remissions, cortical symptoms referable to the motor and sensory centers, intellectual deficit with predominance of physcomotor manifestations, progressive course, a noninflamatory diffuse cell disease with cell out-fall throughout a gray substance. This disease first recorded by H.G. Creutzfeldt and one year later by A Jakob has now been given their names ( Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease).
    Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease simply stated is a rare degeneration of the brain, causing headache, progressive dementia, seizures, and death within a year of symptom onset. Most of the CJD cases are sporadic with some large sporadic bursts being evident in certain areas throughout the world. Approximately 5-15% of cases are inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with a 0.56 penetrance. CJD is one disorder in a disease category that is believed to be caused by a infectious protein particle called a prion. A debate looking at the mechanism of action of these protein particles is ongoing. However there are some common threads that tie all prion diseases together.
    Infectious prion particles are made of an abnormal isoform of the prion protein encoded by a chromosomal gene. A unknown post-translational process converts cellular prion proteins into the abnormal isoform (Prusiner). Point mutations in the prion protein genes of humans have been linked to the development of the neurodegeneration. In Familial CJD a point mutation causing missense of the reading frame on chromosome 20p is suspect to the cause of the disorder. The wild type PRNP gene encodes for the protein portion of a glycoprotein that accumulates in fibers outside cells in a few disorders including CJD.

    95. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Lawsuit News Find Trial Lawyers And
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    Ask an Attorney The rare but dreaded variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a human spongiform encephalopathy. It tends to afflict relatively young people, even adolescents; normally, CJD very rarely strikes anyone under the age of 45. Moreover, the incubation period of vCJD appears to be only a few years, compared with the several decades believed to be required for normal sporadic or familial CJD. Researchers in this field note, however, that the incubation time and pathological manifestation of the disease is influenced by factors such as the route of inoculation, the dose and source of the infecting agent, and the genetics of the host being infected. Whether normal or variant, CJD is a rare, yet horrible, disease that normally strikes 1-2 persons per million and is always fatal, generally within one year. Its outward symptoms in humans resemble those of

    96. Australian CJD Support Group Network Inc - CJDSGNI - Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease S
    Support for people in Australia affected by CJD.Category Health Conditions and Diseases Support Groups......Australian CJD Support Group Network Inc CJDSGNI - creutzfeldt-jakob diseasesupport website. CJD Support Group Network Inc.
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    Contents Some Background
    Two thousand one hundred Australians were treated with human pituitary hormones under the Australian Human Pituitary Hormone Program (AHPHP) which ran in Australia from 1967 until 1985.
    Unlike similar programs undertaken in a number of overseas countries at around the same time, the AHPHP concentrated on the treatment of infertile women with human pituitary gonadotrophin (hPG) with around six hundred children treated with human growth hormone (hGH) for stunted growth. Five Australians so far have developed and died from iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) as a result of receiving pituitary hormone products. The program was suspended in 1985 following hGH related CJD deaths in the United States. All those treated under the program are at risk of developing CJD, because the manufacturing protocols allowed cross-infection of production batches. The AHPHP was run under the auspices of the Commonwealth Department of Health. The hormones were manufactured by the then government owned Commonwealth Serum Laboratory in Melbourne.

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