Posted on 04/13/2025 8:01:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have been confirmed over the last eight months, and it’s unclear if these cases are linked at this time, according to the Hood River County Health Department on Friday.
The Oregonian/OregonLive, which was the first to report on the cases, says two of the cases have resulted in deaths. Nexstar’s KOIN reached out to the Hood River County Health Department for confirmation but did not immediately receive a response.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the result of a prion, a type of infectious protein, triggering a body’s normal proteins to misfold, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. There is no treatment or cure, and will typically lead to death within a year from when symptoms begin.
A neurodegenerative disorder, CJD is characterized by Alzheimer’s-like symptoms, though they get worse “much faster,” the Mayo Clinic writes. Specifically, symptoms can include memory loss, coordination issues, trouble speaking, and personality changes, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Hood River County health officials say most cases of CJD can happen without a known reason, but sometimes it can be inherited by running in families and in very rare cases, it can be spread through certain medical exposures or by eating infected beef. The latter is often referred to as “variant CJD,” the CDC says.
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Mad Tofu Disease.
Is that what they are calling Trump Derangement Syndrome these days?
It’s a brain disease, and it’s rare in Oregon? The jokes write themselves.
Link for geeks!
https://search.brave.com/search?q=the+x-files+Creutzfeldt-Jakob&summary=1
What’s everyone else’s excuse?
I’m shocked to learn there are 3 brains in Oregon.
Bring in the world’s finest proctologists.
Three, more like three million cases.
Interesting...an attorney in Hood River died of CJD a few years ago.
The ex-wife died from that a year and a half ago. She lasted about ten months. It destroys the entire brain which means all of the organs begin shutting down because they no longer receive the proper signals from the brain.
can also happen from eating infected game meat ... herds of wild deer and antelope are periodically decimated by “wasting disease”, an apparent cousin to CJD, which why i refuse to eat wild game harvested by local hunters ...
Aren’t there more than three Democrats in Oregon?
Mad Oregonian Disease — whoever would have guessed that?
“Aren’t there more than three Democrats in Oregon?”
LOL...you win the thread!
That was my first thought; someone hunted and ate a diseased deer. Sad and I believe irreversible.
So far Oregon is supposedly free of wasting disease in their deer herds. Hood river is a foodie town not far from Portland. Maybe some game sausage from out of state, commercial or otherwise in there shops.
Seriously? Oregon is a blue state. It’s physically impossible for any of them to have a brain disease.
Finding someone in Oregon with a brain is definitely rare.
Reminds me of the joke where the wife calls her husband to warn him some idiot is driving the wrong way on the freeway, he responds 1? There are hundreds 😂
There are millions suffering from a brain disorder it is called leftism😎
That is tragic, how did she get the disease and where did she live, if you don’t mind me asking?
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