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Idaho investigating possible outbreak of CJD - brain wasting disease
Hi MamaDearest.
Adding on to your links in post no. 1190.
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http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&tab=wn&ie=UTF-8&q=%22cjd%22&btnG=Search+News
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2005/07/30/news_topstory/news_topstory.1.txt
July 30, 2005
Twin Falls, Idaho
"State and federal health officials to investigate CJD cases"
By Sandy Miller
Times-News writer
TWIN FALLS --
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Four of the women lived in Twin Falls County and the fifth woman was from Minidoka County.
CJD is a rapidly progressing fatal neurodegenerative disease that is carried by prions, an abnormal form of protein in the bloodstream. Prions cause folding of normal protein in the brain, leading to brain damage. Symptoms include dementia and other neurological signs."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "However, the unusually high number of cases has drawn attention from state health officials as well as the CDC. Normally, the disease infects just one person per 1 million people worldwide a year. The United States has reported fewer than 300 cases of CJD a year, according to the CDC.
State epidemiologist Christina Hahn said the CDC will be advising her when she comes to Twin Falls next week to investigate the cluster of CJD cases."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #3: ""The first thing I'd do is look at chronic wasting disease and their exposure to deer and elk," Johnson said.
Chronic wasting disease has been found in deer and elk, but there has never been a proven transfer from animals to humans, he said. However, the CDC has said that the increasing spread of chronic wasting disease in animals in western states has raised concerns about the potential for increasing human exposure to the chronic wasting disease agent."