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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Mad Cow Disease
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10-08-2014, 12:52 PM
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Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Mad Cow Disease
Mad Cow Disease is a Prion that effects the brain causing a degenerative neurological disease.
Info Quote:Can people get Mad Cow Disease? Animal Transmission, Bovine, Swine, Ovine, Caprine, Extreme Zoolgy Human Transmission Blood, Sperm Symtoms Quote:The first symptom of CJD is rapidly progressive dementia, leading to memory loss, personality changes and hallucinations. Other frequently occurring features include anxiety, depression, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and psychosis.[11] This is accompanied by physical problems such as speech impairment, jerky movements (myoclonus), balance and coordination dysfunction (ataxia), changes in gait, rigid posture, and seizures. The duration of the disease varies greatly, but sporadic (non-inherited) CJD can be fatal within months or even weeks.[citation needed] In some people, the symptoms can continue for years. In most patients, these symptoms are followed by involuntary movements and the appearance of an atypical diagnostic electroencephalogram tracing. Most victims die six months after initial symptoms appear, often of pneumonia due to impaired coughing reflexes. About 15% of patients survive for two or more years.[12] Some patients have been known to live 4–5 years with mostly psychological symptoms until the disease progresses causing more physical symptoms leading to a diagnosis and inevitable death usually within the first year of diagnosis. Quote:The defective protein can be transmitted by contaminated harvested human brain products,[18] immunoglobulins (IVIG), corneal grafts, dural grafts or electrode implants (acquired or iatrogenic form (iCJD); it can be familial (fCJD); or it may appear for the first time in the patient (sporadic form: sCJD). In the familial form, a mutation occurs in the gene for PrP, PRNP. Ten to fifteen percent of CJD cases are familial. (CDC) |
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