Subacute insomnia

The prion diseases are a closely related group of neuro-degenerative conditions which affect both humans and animals. They have previously been described as the subacute spongiform encephalopathies, slow virus diseases and transmissible dementias, and include scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle, and the human prion diseases, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and kuru. Prion diseases are... 

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome, fatal familial insomnia, and kuru are fatal diseases of the central nervous system, known as transmissible subacute spongiform encephalopathies (193). Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the most common of these and has an incidence of 1 1000 000 in most countries. About 10% of those involved have a familial disposition, but most cases occur sporadically. There are similar diseases in sheep (scrapie), cattle (bovine spongiform encephalopathy), and other animal species. The cause of the... 

Headache, delirium, giddiness, weakness, insomnia, irritability Impairment of vision, weakness of limbs in animals ( blind staggers") following subacute exposure... 

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