Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Research Paper
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Or CJD is a degenerative brain disorder that causes dementia and eventually death. This disease affects the person's brain by causing it to be unstable. Some early symptoms of CJD are; failing memory, behavioral changes, impaired coordination and visual disturbances. Because this disease affects the neurological balance of the brain, a person who is suffering from it eventually loses control of their brain and will fall into a coma. Some other symptoms are insomnia, depression, unusual sensations and muscle jerks. Some cases have shown that people may go blind and lose the ability to speak or move. The overall outcome for all cases have resulted in death. Typically the symptoms appear around the age of sixty and around ninety percent of individuals die within one year. Some cases have had people live for longer than one year after the symptoms progressed but eventually the individuals passed away.
There are three different types of CJD. The first is sporadic, which accounts for around eighty five percent of cases. Sporadic is when the disease appears randomly, usually the cause is unknown or there is none.This can affect anyone, even if they do not eat meat. The second type is hereditary. This type is genetic which accounts for five to ten percent of cases in the United States. The …show more content…
At first the people assumed that all cases of CJD were a result of eating contaminated meat but due to further investigation that theory was disproven. In the nineteen eighties the first major outbreak of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease or BSE) happened in the United Kingdom, it reached its peak around nineteen ninety three with almost one thousand cases per week of infected cattle. Because there is no way to detect BSE in the blood, according to emedicinehealth, people who lived in the area a of BSE outbreak for a long period of time are not allowed to donate
There are three different types of CJD. The first is sporadic, which accounts for around eighty five percent of cases. Sporadic is when the disease appears randomly, usually the cause is unknown or there is none.This can affect anyone, even if they do not eat meat. The second type is hereditary. This type is genetic which accounts for five to ten percent of cases in the United States. The …show more content…
At first the people assumed that all cases of CJD were a result of eating contaminated meat but due to further investigation that theory was disproven. In the nineteen eighties the first major outbreak of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease or BSE) happened in the United Kingdom, it reached its peak around nineteen ninety three with almost one thousand cases per week of infected cattle. Because there is no way to detect BSE in the blood, according to emedicinehealth, people who lived in the area a of BSE outbreak for a long period of time are not allowed to donate