New way to quickly detect mad cow disease

A group of Australian and Japanese researchers have found a rapid and accurate test of mad cow disease (CJD - Creutzfeldt-Jakob), an important step in the more effective diagnosis of a dangerous disease. this deadly.

Australian National Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) quoted Associate Professor Steven Collins, director of CJD Disease Registry, saying that the new test method will reduce the complicated testing process in suspicious people. sick.

Although the sensitivity is equivalent to the currently widely used test method (14-3-3 protein method), the new CJD assay method is suitable and gives more accurate results.

Thanks to this new test method, doctors determine more easily and accurately what patients need to be treated, thereby giving more direct treatment.

CJD is capable of spreading in both humans and animals, is a deadly disease caused by the degeneration of the brain and central nervous system of people.

The common symptom of this disease is that the patient is unable to speak, limbs are stiff, facial muscles contract. Statistics show that about one in a million people suffer from this disease.