A new type of disease has baffled experts with its dementia like symptoms, on a more severe scale, which have taken the lives of 10 of its 16 sufferers from America.
A new type of disease has baffled experts with its dementia like symptoms, on a more severe scale, which has taken the lives of 10 of its 16 sufferers from America.
Experts opine that the symptoms portrayed by these patients are close to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which gradually incapacitates patients’ ability to perform the basic functions of speech, thought and action. Scientists are still searching for its origins and mode of transmission and are unable to put a figure on the exact number of sufferers of this disease in the world.
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In victims suffering this rare type of dementia, the brain tissue appears to have tiny holes caused by the collection of a brain protein called PrP. It is also thought to be hereditary, triggered by gene mutations.
Infact, the paper presented by Gambetti makes a mention about six cases of dementia which were found to be familial. However, mutations in the PrP genes did not occur in these six cases. "Maybe there are other genes that have an influence on the disease," suggests James Ironside of the UK's National CJD Surveillance Unit in Edinburgh.
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Consumption of diseased cattle meat, especially from cattle suffering mad cow disease, is behind one type of CJD. It is yet unclear if triggers for this disease exist in the environment or in the diet. Gambetti has begun doing experiments on mice to understand how the disease is transmitted. "I believe the disease occurs naturally, and is not due to environmental causes," he said.
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New Trial to Remove 'Mad Cow' Risk from Donated Blood Launched
Scottish doctors have launched the world's first trial to make blood transfusions free of the human form of 'mad cow disease.
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Canada Reports 'Atypical' Strain of Mad Cow Case
A case of mad cow disease discovered in Canada in December involves an "atypical" strain of the infection also reported in Europe, Canadian officials said Wednesday.
A case of mad cow disease discovered in Canada in December involves an "atypical" strain of the infection also reported in Europe, Canadian officials said Wednesday.
