A fetus "kills" its mother after having infected a rare neurological disease

A woman died of a strange neurological disease that her own son had infected while she was pregnant with him decades before his death. The fetus transmitted to his mother the rare pathology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob which took all these years to develop.

The current man is born of a genetic mutation, inherited from his father, which caused him damage. Cerebral which in turn causes a rapid decrease in mental functions and movement, according to The Times .

The father – who died years ago – also suffered from this illness that he inherited from his father. However, what surprised the doctors is that the woman, who died at age 70, had apparently not undergone a change in her genes, although she died in the same way.

The doctors discovered that the mother was surely affected. is guilty of the guilt of his son during pregnancy; because the fetal cells entered the placenta and pbaded through the mother's body to reach her brain.

Ausrine Arekeviciute, researcher at the University Hospital of Copenhagen, explains to the British newspaper that, when women are pregnant, "the cells of the fetus cross the placenta throughout the body and can reach various organs of the body, the mother. "

At the present time the son is still alive although he is affected by the disease . It is precisely the diagnosis of this one that led doctors to believe that his mother – who did not have the genetic mutation badociated with the disease – could have been infected by her son. "There is no treatment and the prognosis is not good," says the doctor. "It's a sad story," he says. The case was published in the journal J Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology.

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