Woman dies from 'rare form of dementia' she caught decades ago from her baby when he was in her womb
The fatal disease causes irreversible brain damage and is started by abnormal proteins known as prions, which slowly destroy brain cells.
A woman has died from a rare form of dementia which she reportedly caught decades ago from her own baby when she was pregnant. Reports state that the unidentified woman's husband died of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) disease two decades ago and previous checkups had shown her own genes to be clear of the mutation responsible for his death. The woman, however, died from the same disease as her later husband years later, in her seventies. Reports state that the woman's 53-year-old son, whom she caught the disease from when pregnant, is also "showing symptoms" of sporadic CJD, the Daily Mail reported.