
Slow virus infection and prion diseases of central nervous system

Kuru

Jakob-creutzfeldt disease

Variant creutzfeldt-jakob disease

Other and unspecified creutzfeldt-jakob disease

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis
- rare chronic progressive encephalitis caused by the measles virus and occurring primarily in children and young adults; death usually occurs within three years; characterized by primary measles infection before the age of two years.

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy
- demyelination in various part of the central nervous system, usually secondary to neoplastic disease; JC virus has been recovered from brain tissue.

Other specified prion diseases of central nervous system

Gerstmann-straussler-scheinker syndrome

Fatal familial insomnia

Other and unspecified prion disease of central nervous system

Other specified slow virus infection of central nervous system

Unspecified slow virus infection of central nervous system