RightHealth Daily Dose » beef http://dailydose.righthealth.com We feature the one health item you simply cannot afford to miss. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:18:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 New CJD Type Found In US http://dailydose.righthealth.com/uncategorized/new-cjd-type-found-in-us/ http://dailydose.righthealth.com/uncategorized/new-cjd-type-found-in-us/#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:03:32 +0000 Steven http://dailydose.kosmix.com/?p=954 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) was widely pulicized in the 1990s as the human form of the cow disease bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), which is contracted from eating contaminated beef. However, there are sporadic forms of CJD that can occur for unknown reasons – unrelated to eating meat. Now, researchers have found a new variant of this fatal disease that appears to advance faster, causing dementia and even the loss of ability to speak and move. It is yet unclear what the cause is, but scientists speculate that an interaction with a genetic component may be likely.

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