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How common is chronic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?

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Sporadic CJD, with no recognizable pattern of transmission, has an incidence of about one case per million people per year worldwide, making up 85% of total CJD cases, and 80% of all prion disease cases.

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What causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease?
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