Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Symptoms

Brief overview Symptoms: Mental symptoms such as depression, apathy, rapidly progressing dementia, uncoordinated movements and muscle twitching, impaired sensation, balance and vision, stiff muscles Causes: Sporadic form (for no apparent reason), genetic cause, transmission through medical interventions (iatrogenic form), through consumption of infected food or blood transfusion (new form of vCJD), triggered by misfolded proteins … Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Symptoms

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

What is bovine spongiform encephalopathy? Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), like the other transmissible spongiform brain diseases, is caused by prions. These are misfolded proteins that are deposited primarily in nerve cells and thus damage the brain. The BSE pathogens are considered dangerous, among other things, because they easily cross the so-called species barrier and infect … Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy