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FactSheet: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Volume 12 Issue 2

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin 12(2) 43 - 43 Published: 2001

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Abstract

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and fatal brain disease in humans. It is a type of disease known as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) because it causes characteristic spongy breakdown of the brain and it can be transmitted. Other animals—such as sheep, cows and cats—can also develop TSEs.