vCJD and an Entire Country Within 4 months of the onset, poor memory and an unsteady gait develop Unusual sensory symptoms Jerky movements, involuntary muscle contractions, and muscle paralysis visual deterioration and eventual blindness slurred speech, difficulty swallowing Incontinence Increasingly intense hallucinations depression, withdrawal, anxiety, trouble sleeping, and schizophrenia-like psychosis Increasing, extreme dementia Patients become completely immobile and mute, and eventually lapse into a coma which is fallowed by death