Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

9. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) It is a rare, degenerative but fatal brain disorder affecting very a small fraction of persons. The symptoms usually arise at the age of 60 and the person dies within a year. Many researchers believe that this disorder is the result of an abnormal protein known as prion. About 5-10% cases reported in the United States share a genetic basis where this form of dementia is caused by a mutation in the gene for the prion protein. Patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

The newest class of antibiotics, fluoroquinolones- viewed as the last line of defence for some human infections- are already proving ineffective against some bacteria strains. An epidemiologist for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that among public health officials ³there is no controversy about where antibiotic resistance in food-borne pathogens comes from²: the heavy use of antibiotics is to blame. The huge amounts of manure that the industrial

encephalopathies (TSEs), or Prion diseases, are a group of neurodegenerative disorders which include but is not limited to kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker (GSS) syndrome, and fatal familial insomnia in men, natural scrapie in sheep, goats and mufflons. The first records of neurodegenerative disease which would later be linked to Prions were made about two hundred years ago. It was in the 1950’s it was discovered that Prion disease could be transmitted horizontally

Prions disease has brought many fatal deaths to animals and humans; there are many diseases branching out from prions. Prions disease have also been considered ‘transmissible spongiform encephalopathies’ or TSE. The reason for this name came from the fact of how prions diseases cause holes in the brain making it look spongi. This disease has caused many fatal deaths in sheep's during the 18th century, in humans around the 1950s, and in cattles during the 1990s. We all have this prion protein in

The Effects of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies on Humans Abstract Humans have to deal with many different diseases and the ones most disliked are the ones with no cures. Like cancer, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies have no cure, but they are more rare. These diseases are prion diseases which cause the brain to deteriorate. Prions are proteins that sometimes behave like viruses, which mean that they should have some form of nucleic acid, but since they don’t, they cause abnormalities

practices later turns into generations of life-long deadly diseases. This is all caused by a deadly little prion, which can be referred to as Spongiform Encephalies. Spongiform encephalies causes the brain to become spongy and have holes while deteriorating the neurological functions along with the body’s biological process (“Kuru: The Dynamics of a Prion Disease”: Dr. Bindon). Prions

by certain conditions and diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, vascular dementia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. 
Age is the greatest risk factor for dementia. Dementia affects one in 14 people over the age of 65 and one in six over the age of 80. However, dementia is not restricted to older people: in the UK, there are over 17,000 people under the age of 65 with dementia, although this figure is likely to be an underestimate. Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s disease

There are many neurological diseases in the world. Many are ones we have found cures for or at lease have treatment to help with symptoms. Prions are much different than that. Prions come from the two worlds Protein and Infection. This disease is the combination of both proteins and infections cause spongiform encephalopathies. This translates to “holes in the brain”. Prion diseases have many names depending on what sort of mammal that infect. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the most common in humans

Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s Disease affects one person in every million people per year worldwide. In the United States, there are about three-hundred cases per year, making Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s Disease a rare disease. However, once the brain is affected, this degenerative, debilitating disease progresses rapidly. The particles responsible for this rare, fatal disease are called prions. Prions are protienaceous infectious particles formed when normal proteins misfold and clump together, which causes the brain

1.0 Background/Causes: A fatal microbial disease, commonly known as Meningococcal meningitis, can be scientifically referred to as any illness caused by the infectious Neisseria meningitidis bacteria. (SEE APPENDIX 3.0) The highest extended disease rate is located within the belt of sub-Saharan Africa, stretching within twenty-six countries from Senegal to Ethiopia. The infectious Meningococcal bacterium are transmitted through person to person contact; spread by exchanging respiratory and throat