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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051017/ap_on_he_me/creutzfeldt_jakob_fears;_ylt=AgU9mIva1JBNcEYyHMpM828R.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA4NW41NTlyBHNlYwMxNzAx

"State and federal health officials are trying to get to the bottom of nine reported cases of suspected sporadic CJD in Idaho this year. Sporadic, or naturally occurring, CJD differs from the permutation dubbed variant CJD, which is caused by eating mad-cow-tainted beef and has killed at least 180 people in the United Kingdom and continental Europe since the 1990s."

"Pathologists are often reluctant to perform the procedures, the cost of an autopsy can be high and some families are reluctant to give their consent, officials say.

Joan Kingsford wanted an autopsy done on her husband, but no mortician in the area would agree to handle Alvin's body after his brain cavity had been opened. They feared they would catch the rare disease, Kingsford said."

"We definitely have a problem in Idaho,"

Indeed

Yeah ... well what about the brain wasting disease that has hit Washington DC. What are they going to do about that?

Absolutely nothing!

;-)

Amaranth:

I think the national problem is grossly underestimated.

jw