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9 Cases of Brain-Wasting Disease in Idaho
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 18, 2005 06:42pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News |
| News Date | Monday, October 17, 2005 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Alvin Kingsford, 72, died recently of suspected sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the fatal brain-wasting illness. The disease can be conclusively diagnosed only with an autopsy, which did not take place.
State and federal health officials are trying to get to the bottom of nine reported cases of suspected sporadic CJD in Idaho this year. Sporadic, or naturally occurring, CJD differs from the permutation dubbed variant CJD, which is caused by eating mad-cow-tainted beef and has killed at least 180 people in the United Kingdom and continental Europe since the 1990s. |
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