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CD Disease

The reason I have chosen Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is because of the fear of this disease, like many others, in my profession. Right now I have my apprentiship liceanse to be an embalmer, and a funeral director. The article which I read clears up the misconceptions that some people might have with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. And it also clears up wither or not it is safe to embalm people with this disease. I am going to call it CJ disease for short. Do you remember the old saying “your one in a million?” This just happens to be the number of people that CJ disease affects each year, 1 out of a million. You may have heard of CJ disease as Mad Cow disease, this is the same thing, just a different name, it is found in both humans and animals.

What happens with CJ disease is the brain starts to get holes in it, until it resembles a sponge under a microscope. That, as you may have guessed, is not good. So what are the


In the article Dr. Collison does write that it is safe to embalm people with this disease. She states that if the embalmer strictly follow’s the guidelines and precautions for embalming such cases, that we should not have a problem with it. Such precautions may include, eye protection, cut prove gloves, basically what we embalmers like to call, a “Zuit Suit.” She also stated that the risk of the embalmer getting infected with the disease, is lower than that of hepatitis, or HIV. This is more good news!!

Is there more than one type of CJ disease? As a matter of fact there are three main types of CJ disease, the most common type being Sporadic, next is hereditary, and finally acquired. The Sporadic is the most common type infecting eighty five percent of the people with the disease. Hereditary, as you may have guessed by now, is passed along from your parents, (thanks mom and dad!) This type is due to a gene mutation and acounts for about five to te

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