"Cape woman positive for rare brain disease; Mass. official says the illness is not communicable" by Stephen Smith, Globe Staff and Kate O'Neill Augusto, Globe Correspondent | July 22, 2008
An elderly patient at Cape Cod Hospital has tested positive for a rare brain ailment called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, state public health officials announced yesterday.
Each year in Massachusetts, about six people are diagnosed with the degenerative disorder, which in most cases leads to rapid death, health officials said. The patient's identity is not being released.
The disease, known for decades among neurologists, first came to widespread public attention during the mad cow scare of the 1980s, when a strain of the disorder was linked to tainted beef in the United Kingdom. But only three such cases of the particular strain have been identified in the United States, and all of those were in patients who had come from Britain.
Please see: Mad Cow on Cape Cod
"a half-dozen cases are reported every year in Massachusetts and about 300 nationwide (Boston Globe July 21 2008)."
I AM SICK of the MSM and their LYING, readers!!!!!!!!
The Cape patient had not been tested for the Creutzfeldt-Jakob strain that is related to mad cow disease since the test takes weeks, the strain is so rare, and there was no indication that she had that strain, said Dr. Alfred Demaria, the Department of Public Health's top epidemiologist.
Demaria said that the disease is not communicable and that there is no need for public concern. "It's a very rare disease," Demaria said. "There's a lot of things that threaten people every day that are much, much, more common than this." He added that the annual incidence is one in a million.
Yeah, just SOFT SELL the POISONED FOOD SUPPLY, doc!
Further tests will be conducted to determine the cause of the Cape woman's illness. State disease trackers said there is nothing to suggest that her case is associated with mad cow disease.
Instead, as in virtually all cases in the United States, it is almost certainly not linked to any obvious external cause. Cape Cod Hospital did not return immediate calls for comment."
If they will lie about this, readers, then they will lie about everything!!!!
And THEY DO!!!!
I guess crap like this (found on page 1 of the B section) Bridgewater woman recounts fox attack is more important.
Fucking piece of shit Boston Globe hey!
