Michigan woman, 55, dies from mad cow-like disease that is 100% deadly and has ... trends now
A Michigan woman died from a rare brain disease that kills 100 percent of patients and most often strikes at random.
Arlene VonMyhr, 55, woke up the night of January 8 with stroke symptoms, which typically include confusion, trouble walking, and facial weakness.
Doctors sent her home, and over the next two weeks, she was rushed to the hospital four times over slurred speech and balance issues.
On January 26, the mother and grandmother went to the hospital and did not return home.
'It was a really rapid five weeks of decline,' Gary VonMyhr, her husband of 34 years, told Michigan Live.
Arlene VonMyhr, 55, of Michigan, died in February after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a degenative disease that kills 100 percent of patients usually strikes at random
Tests five days later revealed Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a degenerative brain disorder that has been compared to Mad Cow Disease.
The condition mostly afflicts patients at random, is always fatal, and has no cure.
'Once a definitive diagnosis came back to CJD, then at that point they stopped all the treatments and the IV because there wasn’t anything they could do for her,' Mr VonMyhr said.
'It was all about comfort and dignity at that point.'
Mrs VonMyhr died on February 19, one of five at Michigan's Corewell Health to succumb to the condition in a year, prompting an 'urgent investigation' last year.
CJD is an aggressive brain
