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As far as I know the progression of Alzheimer's is far slower than v/CJD. It would become fairly obvious fairly rapidly that you were dealing with something els
by msbarnett 15y ago
As far as I know the progression of Alzheimer's is far slower than v/CJD. It would become fairly obvious fairly rapidly that you were dealing with something else.
- mark_l_watson 15y agoI thought that v/CJD takes about 10 years, right? A friend of my parents in California died several years ago from mad cow desease (v/CJD) and it took many years. Anyway, this is outside my area of expertise - my wife however spent a lot of time looking into this and she very much believes that mis-diagnosis is common.
- msbarnett 15y agoMy understanding is that the average progression for variant CJD, from early symptoms until death, is just over a year. For "regular" CJD it's closer to half that. Long term progressions are known to happen but are rare even given the rareness of CJD, so your friend was quite the outlier.