If you know something going on for prions, foolish cow disease, or vCJD look at this.?
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Prion diseases are progressive, fatal, and untreatable degenerative brain disorders. They include Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD, the prototypic example), Gerstmann-Str"aussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS), brutal insomnia (FI), variant CJD (vCJD), and kuru. Prion diseases usually ensue sporadically, with a worldwide annual incidence of just about 1/1 million.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a sporadic or familial prion disease. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) is a variant form. Symptoms include dementia, myoclonus, and other CNS deficit; death occur in 1 to 2 yr. Transmission can be prevented by taking precautions when handling infected tissues and using bleach to verbs contaminated instruments. Treatment is supportive.
Don't know about first discovery, but here's a website from emedicine on prion diseases. Covers Kuru, CJD, and Fatal Familial Insomnia.
Also look up Scrapie surrounded by sheep, that's another prion disease.
http://www.emedicine.com/NEURO/topic662....
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