Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD): Uncurable brain infection caused by prions
Summary
Even though Dr. Creutzfeldt eventually did not agree that his cases matched those of Dr. Jakob’s, his name continues to be associated with the disease [2, 12] In 1982, Stanley Prusiner, an American neurologist and biochemist, isolated prions and found that they were also present in healthy people and animals. At the time, many in the medical community refused to accept the concept of infectious proteins causing degenerative diseases of the central nervous system. The ‘spongiform’ term comes from sponge-like holes found in the brain tissue of people with an abnormal, infectious version of the prion protein. But, the spread of acquired or variant CJDs can be minimized to a certain degree by: • None Wearing surgical gloves while handling a patient’s tissues and fluids and dressing their wounds. • None Similarly, other surgical instruments that got in contact with blood or other body fluids can be soaked in undiluted chlorine bleach for an hour or more.
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