God of archery, music, poetry, prophecy, medicine, and later on the god of the sun. (Ah-paulâ-oh) Distinguishing Features: Youâve got to dig the shades. Apollo likes to look hot, and I donât mean temperature.
CJD, as well as other spongiform encephalopathies, is caused by an unusual pathogenic agent called a prion. A prion is a deviant form of a normally harmless protein found in the brains of mammals and birds.
Variant CJD. This is an infectious type of the disease that is related to âmad cow disease.â Eating diseased meat may cause the disease in humans. The meat may cause normal human prion protein to develop abnormally.