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U.S. Woman Dies from Mad Cow-Like Brain Disease That Lay Dormant for 50 Years
A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report.
The 58-year-old woman developed a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) likely contracted through contaminated human growth hormone (HGH) treatments she received as a child, they determined. Prions can emerge sporadically for no clear reason, can be caused by inherited mutations, or they can be transmitted though close contact with infected bodily fluids or brain matter. There are known cases of people dying from CJD infections caught over 30 years ago, as well as reports of other prion diseases emerging over a half century later.
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