ANOTHER CJD CLUSTER?

Of course CJD "clusters" will occur randomly in a given geographic area just by statistical probability, but that's small comfort when it's your area. People in the Hudson Valley may now be wondering if something's up after a local woman who may be the fifth in recent months died of CJD. Now officials are saying preliminary tests show some of the suspected cases were not
CJD, but they declined to say how many cases, citing the need to keep everything related to brain-wasting diseases super-secret and mysterious in order to bolster public confidence.