Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease

representative of this disease or its effects on the human brain. This progressive and debilitating disease maintains many unknowns, and patient outlook is equivalent to lethal injection. Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s Disease (CJD) is a rare, degenerative, invariably fatal brain disorder, derived from transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by prions. Prions occur in a normal state, which are harmless proteins found in the body’s cells, and also in an infectious form that causes disease. Harmless forms of

theory that suggests that the disease is caused by a virus, and that the prion is merely a byproduct of the viral activity. When the disease is present within a cow, it causes the brain to become riddled with holes that go all the way through the brain. Symptoms manifest in strange behaviors, such as pathological nervousness and increased aggression. The disease itself made headlines when it an epidemic hit Europe in the 1980s. The outbreak of BSE, or “mad cow disease”, was amplified by the practice

and control disease around the world. Traditionally, a communicable disease is caused by one of three foreign agents: bacteria, parasites, viruses. While quite different, these four agents have much in common, including their adherence to Koch’s germ theory, their reliance on human hosts, and methods of transmission. In the last twenty years or so, however, the scientific community has encountered a fifth type of pathogen that is completely different in size, composition, and the disease it causes

In the beginning, they thought that the practice of cannibalism was the reason for this disease. After many years of study and research they learned that was so. Michael Alper, Carlton Gajdusek, and Shirley Linderbaum were directly involved and responsible for discovering the source, mapping its progression, and finding the first victim of Kuru

with a 100% fatality within one to two years of onset. CJD belongs to a family of human and animal diseases known as the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs). It is believed to be caused by an abnormal isoform of a cellular glycoprotein known as the prion protein that becomes toxic in an abnormal form (CDC) although Dr. Campellone suggest other proteins may play a role in this disease as well. Although, it is so rare that only between one to every one million people worldwide are diagnosed

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a brain disease in deer related animals that produces small lesions in the brains of diseased animals (CWD-Info 2013). Lesions are an area of severe tissue change in the brain (CWD-Info 2013). The lesions can range from harmless to very serious cases (CWD-Info 2013). Infectious parts of CWD are neither bacteria or viruses, but are thought as prions (CWD-Info 2013). Prions are dangerous proteins without nucleic acids (CWD-Info 2013). The prions break down the tissue

Although dementia is an irreversible disease, some of the symptoms might be curable such as impairment from toxic side effect of medications or drugs, tumors that can be removed, hypothyroidism which result from low levels of thyroid secretion and hypoglycemia which results from low blood sugar. Metabolic disorders such as vitamin 12 deficiency could also cause dementia as well. The irreversible dementia which might deteriorate sooner or later, include Alzheimer’s diseases, which mostly is a general reason

Alzheimer's disease affects around 850,000 and is most common. The cause of the disease is still not found but there are plenty of factors that filter in to increasing a person's chance of developing the condition. Strokes can damage the brain therefore causing dementia, diseases are another factor which can damage the brain, increasing age, family history of the condition and head injuries. Alzheimer's is a condition that progresses over time and the further along the more developed the symptoms

cow disease refers to the changes seen in brain tissue of affected cows. This disease is normally found in adult cows and it slowly but aggressively affects their central nervous system. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) continuingly does testing on US cattle to prevent this disease from spreading to human consumers. There are several ways the disease can affect the human body, there are ways we can treat it, but most importantly there are ways we can prevent it. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob

Dementia is a disorder that affects the memory and thinking of whoever has it. It is very important to understand the different types of the disorder to get proper treatment. Dementia also can cause anger issues as it develops over time. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia as if effects around five million people. Symptoms include forgetting day or year, forgetting where placing things and trying to find them later, and poor judgement. Vascular dementia is usually caused when some