my father died from CJD back in the early 2010s he was one of apx 30 canadians who die from CJD every year. It's a fucking horrid thing to witness. CJD is the human version of Mad Cow Disease not the other way around. After he died it was mandatory that he be cremated at a much higher temperature than a normal cremation temp in order to make sure every possible contaminant was killed. The crazy thing was that he was in Britain in the 1980s during the MadCow outbreak, no specialists have been able to connect the two because of all the years that had passed (30?). but, possibly like lung cancer and other diseases in the elderly things lay dormant until late in life when the immune system isn't as healthy. Possibly he did ingest something years ago that lay dormant until old age? What is clear is that there is no cure and it's nasty and kills within months of diagnosis, there is NO survival.