A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of "Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Awareness Day".

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Awareness Day would be supported to raise public and scientific attention to CJD, a rare, fatal prion brain disease. The resolution notes CJD affects about 1 to 2 people per million each year, roughly 600 U.S. cases, with about 85 percent sporadic, 10 to 15 percent genetic, and under 1 percent acquired, and it urges stronger prion-disease surveillance including postmortem brain exams, raises concern about possible transmission from bovine spongiform encephalopathy and chronic wasting disease in cervids, recognizes the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center as the only U.S. lab monitoring human prion diseases, and highlights the rapid, heavy burden on patients, families, and caregivers.