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In article <6d8ddb$mtt@news.auaracom.net>, R.Hamilton
<ronjh@pgr.auracom.com> writes
>   In the Feb 25,1998 edition of the PROVINCE newspaper (Vancouver
>B.C.) it was reported that tests had confirmed that a 56 year old
>woman who had died in Victoria, B.C. in June 1997, had died due to
>"the same kind of infectious protein particle as mad cow disease."
>  That's quite a drawn out way of saying "prion."
>
>   The story did not give the name of the condition which the woman
>died from. However the reporter did say that only one person out of
>one million would die from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease which is a
>"variant of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy."

One person per million *per year* or about 250 per year in the US.

>   Researchers infecting mice with prions from goats noted in one
>group a drowsiness while in a second group infected with prions from
>different goats, there was hyperactivity. The researchers have
>concluded that there is more than one variant of prion.
>   Now do we need an Einstein to put 2 and 2 together?

So what have *you* deduced from all this, since *I* am not an Einstein?

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Oz