Thursday, July 24

NOPE, NO MAD COW HERE. UNLESS...

"The federal government's monitoring system for cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease could be missing tens of thousands of victims, scientists and consumer advocates have told United Press International." Citing autopsy studies showing "3 percent to 13 percent of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's or dementia actually suffered from CJD," the story says this means "120,000 or more CJD victims going undetected and not included in official statistics."

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