VCJD (medical condition): The bovine spongiform encephalopathy affects cattle but the variant form can infect humans. Human infection can occur by consuming infected cattle products, especially the brain and other central nervous system tissues.
See also:
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease:
»Introduction: Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
»Symptoms of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
VCJD is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of
Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health
(NIH). This means that VCJD, or a subtype of VCJD,
affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
VCJD: Another name for Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (or close medical condition association).
»Introduction: Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
»Symptoms of Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Some of the symptoms of VCJD incude:
See full list of 19 symptoms of VCJD (Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)
These medical disease topics may be related to VCJD:
Source - NIH
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