Sentence examples for cjd from inspiring English sources
This is much worse than apathy: a sort of emotional CJD.
At the time, ten people had died from what was described as a "new variant" of a human illness called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
A second tattoo followed a week later when she got Bang Bang to ink her initials CJD (Cara Jocelyn Delevingne) on the side of her hand.
The MPs said all people found to be at greater risk of vCJD should hear the news verbally from a doctor, nurse or CJD specialist.
Prusiner won the Nobel prize in 1997 for his discovery of prions – infectious proteins that cause fatal neurodegenerative diseases in people and animals, the most famous of which is BSE or mad cow disease and its human form, variant CJD.
1920-1921 First cases of "classical" Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) reported.
The Colchesters suggest that the Hindu practice of consigning the dead to a river, such as the Ganges, may have allowed the bodies of those with CJD to float into the hands of bone collectors, who sold them on to processing mills along with their main haul of animal remains.
As the sobriquet suggests, other forms of CJD had been identified in people before vCJD came along.
A drug to treat CJD would therefore be welcome.
The Spirit Death (Simon and Schuster, £12.99) by David Docherty offers a flatter, less frenetic London, coshed by a heatwave and threatened by a bizarre hybrid virus, a fast-acting combination of CJD and Ebola.
Yet the Colchesters argue that CJD-infected human remains may have been imported into Britain in the 1960s and 1970s from India, from which tonnes of bones and carcass parts came for use as fertiliser and animal feed.
