How Did Émilie Jaumain Get Infected with a Brain-Destroying Prion Disease?
The most common prion disease in humans is the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or the CJD. Its variant form has an incubation period of ten years, with severe symptoms often progressing rapidly. With no treatments or vaccines for prion diseases, it proves to be a heavily painful and fatal sickness. In May 2010, lab worker Émilie Jaumain […]
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