https://tissuepathology.com/2009/03/31/pathologist-dies-of-suspected-creutzfeldtjakob-mad-cow-disease/ Educational and informative Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:25:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://tissuepathology.com/2009/03/31/pathologist-dies-of-suspected-creutzfeldtjakob-mad-cow-disease/#comment-286 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:04:35 +0000 http://tissuepathology.org/posts/pathology-news/pathologist-dies-of-suspected-creutzfeldtjakob-mad-cow-disease/#comment-286 I break down Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) into four categories: heritable, sporadic, iatrogenic, and variant. The variant form (vCJD)is so-called “mad cow disease”. I guess we’ll have to wait for the autopsy results to definitively determine whether or not Dr. Villaescusa died from CJD. Once that’s determined, molecular studies will be required to find out which type of CJD he had. By far, the most common type is sporadic. But given the nature Dr. Villaescusa’s research, one would guess that his CJD is of the iatrogenic type.

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