2 YOUNG men from Michigan died of CJD, USA today 4/29/02

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Two young Michigan men die of CJD

 

 

MAD COW USA? YOUNG CJD DEATHS SEEM ON

THE RISE

 

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020429/4066573s.htm

Two young Michigan men have died from

a mad cow-type disease called

" sporadic

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). " The

men did not die of actual British mad

cow

disease, called new variant CJD or

vCJD in humans. No one knows what

caused

their sporadic CJD, but the odds of

two young men dying at the same time

in the

same hospital are astronomical. The

human victims of British mad cow

disease

are also typically young. The Michigan

deaths raise many sobering questions...

 

SOURCE: USA Today, April 29, 2002

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http://www.prwatch.org/cgi/spin.cgi?date=April%202002#1020056400

 

 

 

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