- We've been saying this for well over 10 years. The latest
estimate from the top US Alzheimer's information association is that 10%
of victims actually die from mad cow. -ed
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- New research suggests that a human form of mad-cow disease
may be much more widespread than previously thought.
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- Scientists agree that eating cattle tissue infected with
bovine spongiform encephalopathy - mad-cow disease - can cause the human
form of the disease. But tests indicate that eating infected beef may also
cause another form of the disease, classical CJD.
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- The accepted wisdom has been that classical CJD affects
older people, those over 55, and generally occurs spontaneously at the
rate of one person per million per year.
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- Because it has been confused with Alzheimer's disease
there is some concern it may be more widespread that statistics indicate.
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