USA: Is It A Cluster Yet? Public Health Officials Have Few Answers About CJD Cases

June 22, 2007

Public health officials in Indiana are busy doing what Idaho public health officials did two years ago: claiming a cluster of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) victims is a mere coincidence.

If the four who died of CJD since January in Allen County in northeast Indiana--five if you count a death in Lynnville in 2005--had the sporadic version of CJD which strikes one in a million and has no clear cause then it's bad luck, a tragedy and Something We Need To Study Further(...)

Ever wonder why the Texas and Alabama ranches that produced mad cows in 2004 and 2006 were allowed to remain anonymous? And keep doing business? The grocery stores and restaurants in California that SERVED meat from the first US mad cow from Washington state in 2003? ...

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