... “trembling” in local native dialect), although the link to the local practice of ritual cannibalism was only established 10 years later ( 3 ). In the mid-1960s, several researchers suggested that scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), and kuru were, in fact, caused by a protein and not a virus, thereby...

... from whose brain it had been isolated, John Cunningham. Care should be taken not to confuse JC virus (cause of PML) with the unrelated CNS disorder sometimes also abbreviated JC, namely Jakob-Creutzfeldt (or more commonly, Creutzfeldt-Jakob [CJD]) disease, named after neuropathologists Hans Gerhard...