After 50 Years of Incubation, This Patient Had to Face a Fatal Prion Disease From Infant Hormone Treatment.

An exceptional medical case has just been documented in the United States: a 58-year-old woman died as a result of Creutzfeldt-Jakob's disease (CJD), an incurable cerebral condition that she allegedly contracted almost half a century earlier. According to a scientific article published on Wednesday in the magazine Emerging Infectious Diseases, this patient would have been infected with some of the ... Read more The article After 50 years of incu…