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    This document discusses Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, also known as mad cow disease. It is a fatal brain disease that causes rapid neurological deterioration. Symptoms include dementia, hallucinations, anxiety, and physical problems like impaired movement and seizures. The disease can be transmitted through contaminated human brain products or infected cows or blood transfusions. There is no cure, and death typically occurs within months of symptoms appearing.

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    This document discusses Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, also known as mad cow disease. It is a fatal brain disease that causes rapid neurological deterioration. Symptoms include dementia, hallucinations, anxiety, and physical problems like impaired movement and seizures. The disease can be transmitted through contaminated human brain products or infected cows or blood transfusions. There is no cure, and death typically occurs within months of symptoms appearing.

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    This document discusses Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, also known as mad cow disease. It is a fatal brain disease that causes rapid neurological deterioration. Symptoms include dementia, hallucinations, anxiety, and physical problems like impaired movement and seizures. The disease can be transmitted through contaminated human brain products or infected cows or blood transfusions. There is no cure, and death typically occurs within months of symptoms appearing.

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    CreutzfeldtJakob disease

    Mad COW DISEASE

    What is this madness?


    degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is incurable and invariably fatal AKA You are going to DIE! Sorry.Oh Yeah your nurse will fill you in with the rest of the detail

    How Did I get This?


    The defective protein can be transmitted by contaminated harvested human brain products.
    YOU ATE Some Brains, didnt you?

    Cannibalism thats HOT!


    You can get it from infected cows, Thats LAME, TELL ME YOU ATE some BRAINS! Or you got an infected blood transfusion. LAME!

    WHATs Goin HAPPEN?


    rapidly progressive dementia, leading to memory loss, personality changes and hallucinations. Other frequently occurring features include anxiety, depression, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and psychosis.
    This is accompanied by physical problems such as speech impairment, jerky movements (myoclonus), balance and coordination dysfunction (ataxia), changes in gait, rigid posture, and seizures. The duration of the disease varies greatly, but sporadic (non-inherited) CJD can be fatal within months or even weeks

    This is your brain

    Then I killed him with a malformed protein! Like A BOSS!

    This Guys Skrewed!

    Good News
    Because this disease is so rare and there is no cure and we really dont know how the hell this disease really works we GET just one more brain to study!

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