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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Neurology · Neurological
Life-threatening
Severity
Extremely rare — 1-2 cases per million people per year
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Neurology
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Misfolded prion proteins that trigger normal prion proteins to also misfold. Sporadic (most common
- 2unknown cause)
- 3familial (genetic mutation)
- 4acquired (variant CJD from eating BSE-infected beef
- 5or iatrogenic transmission)
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