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Prion disease incidence is very low but most all cases in the US are the sporadic kind. It looks like there were over 500 deaths in the US from CJD in 2019. It’
by Pigalowda 5y ago
Prion disease incidence is very low but most all cases in the US are the sporadic kind. It looks like there were over 500 deaths in the US from CJD in 2019. It’s not really about avoiding infected tissue (for CJD)
https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cjd/occurrence-transmission.html?CDC_AA_refVal=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cdc.gov%2Fprions%2Fcjd%2Foccurance-transmisison.html https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cjd/occurrence-transmission.html?...
Here’s some basic info and radiology
https://radiopaedia.org/articles/creutzfeldt-jakob-disease?lang=us https://radiopaedia.org/articles/creutzfeldt-jakob-disease?l...
- giantg2 5y agoI wonder if it's truly sporadic or if we just don't have the necessary patient history to know the source.