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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)<br />

• The human form of mad cow disease<br />

• BSE (Bovine Spongiform encephalopathy)<br />

• Identified by Creutzfeldt and Jakob (1920)<br />

• A progressive fatal neurodegenerative<br />

disease<br />

• Usually aged between 50~75<br />

• Characterized by seizures, massive incoordination,<br />

dementia

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