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RockCreek

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36. Someone I know was recently diagnosed with a neural degenerative disease

Thu Feb 5, 2026, 11:40 AM

Feb 5

It was caught with only months to live.
He had been told and told that it was "just" Long COVID.
It occurred abnormally young.
The disease he has is Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
I looked it up and there is at least one case report of it occurring in an unusually young person who had COVID.
A study to see if the incidence increased post-COVID was done in Britain (because of mad cow their incidence is already a bit elevated). But the study was published in 2021. I wonder what a study done more recently would show.

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