Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease after Eating Ovine Brains?

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To the Editor: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is a form of dementia probably caused by a slow or persistent virus.1 In the laboratory, the disorder can be transmitted to susceptible animals by inoculation of brain.2 The incubation period averaged 11 to 14 months in chimpanzees inoculated both intracerebrally and via other parenteral routes and 16 months when a parenteral route alone was used.3 In human beings, neither the mode of natural transmission nor the length of the incubation period is known.There is one report4 of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease developing in a patient 18 months after she received a corneal transplant from a . . .