Creutzfeld-Jakob-Description

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is a disorder that effects your neurological system. It targets the brain, "eating" away at it creating small holes. This disease will eventually lead to death.CJD is part of a group of diseases called Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (human and animal diseases).CJD is very similar to other diseases such as Mad Cow Disease.======

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CJD was discovered in 1920 by german scientists, but records were not kept about the disease untill about 1921. About 90% of cases of CJD appeared randomly, but some cases have been proven to have been passed down through genetics.======

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