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[ThinAir]

If you have any experience with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease I'd like to correspond with you. This may be what my father-in-law may have.

[DNHunt]

Ernie

I'm sorry to hear about your father in law.

I'm no medical doctor but I've been to a couple of dental education classes lately where Creutzfeld-Jacob came up. There are a couple of kinds. Sporatic Creutzfeld-Jacob and a variant form. Both are rare and lead to a type of protein called amyloid being laid down in plaques between brain cells. We need amyloid but not in such large amounts.

There are a couple of reasons it was discussed. First, sporatic Creutzfeld-Jacob may be more common than thought and some cases diagnosed as Alzheimers may be Creutzfeld-Jacobs. And, second, variant Creutzfeld-Jacobs is the disease in humans that can be caused by eating beef infected with some types of mad cow disease.
I really don't know about treatment or the course of the disease but I'll keep him in my prayers.

Dave