Who would of thought that eating hamburgers, steaks and drinking milk could produce an epidemic disease? These types of food are frequently eaten for their appealing tastes and nutritional values. The discovery of Creutzfeld Jakob Disease (CJD) has been a long and remarkable one. The cause of this disease is a mutated prion protein within the brain that can be either inherited or acquired. These mutations create sponge like holes that destroy the brain. As a result, the disorder gives both behavioural and muscular problems to infected individuals Experiments and discoveries to this disease have led to a further understanding of the diversity of proteins. In the 1960s, D. Carleton Gadjusek studied the behaviour of a native population in Papu
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