Infectious Diseases

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

• "The hungry Sheep look up, and are not fed,
  But swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw
  Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread…"
                                     John Milton, Lycidas (1637)

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CJD Foundation, Inc. - Information and Interaction.

• http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol7no1/brown.htm

"The possibility that large numbers of apparently healthy persons might be incubating the disease raises concerns about iatrogenic transmissions through instrumentation (surgery and medical diagnostic procedures) and blood and organ donations. Government agencies in many countries continue to implement new measures to minimize this risk."  CDC