Noun
vCJD (uncountable)
(medicine) variant CJD, a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
By April 2013, vCJD - the human form of the disease had killed 280 people (176 of them in Britain). Source: Internet
It is thought that humans can contract the disease by consuming material from animals infected with the bovine form of the disease. citation The only suspected cases to arise thus far have been vCJD with cases in the UK and Canada. Source: Internet
People with a biologic relative having been diagnosed with CJD or vCJD are unable to donate. Source: Internet
The exception to this is the more recently recognised 'variant' CJD (vCJD), which occurs in younger people. Source: Internet
This also differs from the 177 patients with vCJD, all of whom to date have been methionine homozygous (MM) genotype. Source: Internet