Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a degenerative brain disorder. If you eat beef or beef spinal cord contaminated by mad cow disease, it may cause deadly Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Patients have sleeping disorders, personality changes, poor coordination, loss of speech, vision loss, muscle atrophy, muscle spasms, and progressive dementia. The disease mainly occurs between 50-70 years of age. The prognosis is very poor. No one has survived this disease yet.
How is Creutzfeldt Jakob disease treated in practice?