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  • New Hampshire hospital contacts 8 patients who may have been exposed to deadly, rare brain disease

    09/05/2013 7:28:45 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 14 replies
    ap ^ | September 05, 2013
    Officials believe the extremely rare disease caused the August death of a patient who had brain surgery at the hospital in May, and they say there's a remote chance it was transmitted to other brain surgery patients because the abnormal proteins that cause the disease can survive standard sterilization practices. ... About 200 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are recorded annually in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health, with the vast majority occurring spontaneously. In fewer than 1 percent of cases, the disease is transmitted by exposure to brain or nervous system tissue, and there have been...
  • Study Suggests More Deaths From Mad Cow Disease

    06/23/2006 12:52:44 AM PDT · by neverdem · 1 replies · 541+ views
    NY Times ^ | June 23, 2006 | DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.
    The long lives that some former cannibals enjoy before succumbing to a brain-wasting disease suggest that many more humans will eventually die of mad cow disease, scientists said Thursday. But several experts in such illnesses, called prion diseases — which are blamed for killing New Guinea cannibals and British eaters of infected beef — disagreed with that frightening implication of the study, which is to be published Friday in The Lancet, a British medical journal. These experts praised the rigorous work the authors of the report did to confirm that kuru, a disease that once decimated highland tribes in New...