Health Minister Alexandre Padilha says the Ministry is in contact with institutions researching prion diseases, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Lito Sousa has this condition and is making an urgent appeal to Ionis Pharmaceuticals, the Broad Institute, Harvard, and Mayo Clinic. Creutzfeldt-Jakob is a rapidly advancing and mostly fatal disease with no standard treatment protocol. As a Brazilian influencer with millions of followers, Lito Souza's family is seeking to get him into an experimental trial involving two potential studies.