variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
noun
: a fatal prion disease that is held to be a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease caused by the prion associated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy and contracted by consuming infected beef or beef products
—abbreviation vCJD
called also variant CJD
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The American Red Cross, which provides about 40 percent of the US supply, last month began accepting donors previously deferred because of the risk of mad cow disease, formally known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD.
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Jonel Aleccia, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
There are four types of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 June 2022
It has been linked to a fatal brain disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 30 May 2021
Other prion diseases, including the human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are also passed along through body fluids and tissue.
—Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2011
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Jonel Aleccia, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
There are four types of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
—William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 9 June 2022
It has been linked to a fatal brain disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).
—Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 30 May 2021
Other prion diseases, including the human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, are also passed along through body fluids and tissue.
—Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 15 Jan. 2011
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