Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Creutzfeld - Jacob's disease

Creutzfeldt-Jakob (or Kuru) is a rare neurological disease characterized by the gradual destruction of nerve cells. This process is accompanied by characteristic symptoms, but then the patient dies. In 1920, the pathology was named after two neurologists - the German neuropathologist Alex Creutz and the French scientist Pierre Jacobs.

The diagnostic finding was first described in 1907, but until 1973 they could not call the disease Creutzfaldt-Jakabob disease, and for a long time it was considered African fever. The disease is considered endemic (characteristic of one area) for archosaurs and lives in