Can Alzheimer’s be transmitted person to person? Preserved Canadian brains studied for answer
Ranging from their mid-teens to late 50s, the four Canadians died tragically after transplants of brain material gave them Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the human equivalent of mad-cow disease. Now, more than a decade later, their own brain tissue is being studied for answers to an unsettling question about another dreaded illness...
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