Urine testing can detect mad cow disease

Urine test is one of the latest diagnostic methods for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad cow disease).

Compiled from the Internet shows, Creutzfeldt-Jakob is a fast dementia, accompanied by neurological signs and symptoms, such as seizures, ataxia, aphasia, visual disturbances, changes. behavior, and paralysis. It is an incurable disease, and up to 90% of people with this disease die within 1 year.

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And people with this disease are often diagnosed through electroencephalography, MRI, brain biopsy, or sample of cerebrospinal fluid . However, a new breakthrough comes from the British Medical Research Council. The urine test is also one of the ways to diagnose this deadly disease.

To achieve this result, the Council selected 162 people, including 91 who did not suffer from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (mad cow disease). Then proceed to collect urine and test.

Results showed that in the urine of 71 people with the remaining Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contained very high levels of infectious prion protein , it was a major factor causing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and spongiform encephalopathy in cattle and cattle.

Although there are no drugs to cure this disease, however, urine testing is also one of the important steps to be able to diagnose, quickly and accurately support the burden of finding. a future cure.

And also, a side note shows that there are a lot of people confusing Alzheimer's dementia and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease because of the common neurological symptoms. In Alzheimer's disease, the patient's memory is also rapidly reduced, the ability to recognize a day is poor, proceed to forget everything and lose awareness. Alzheimer's disease occurs only in the elderly, the development lasts for many years while in CJD, the symptoms manifest in a few months. The incubation period of CJD is very long, maybe 15-25 years, but when the disease develops, only 4-10 months after the patient is dead, no medicine can be cured.

Huynh Dung ( According to UPI)