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A Mad Cow-Like Prion Disease Has Killed Two People and Sickened a Third in Same Oregon Town (gizmodo.com)

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Three people in Hood River County have contacted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease over the span of eight months, an unusual pattern for an incredibly rare disease.

A small Oregon county has been struck by one of the rarest but scariest ailments known to exist. Health officials in Hood River County have reported an unusual cluster of people coming down with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD.

Three residents in the area have contracted CJD over the past eight months, according to the Hood River County Health Department, two of whom are already dead. Local and federal health officials are now investigating the cluster, but they have not identified a link between the cases to date.

While CJD is the most common prion disease, only around 500 new cases of it are estimated to happen in the U.S. annually. This rarity makes three cases showing up so close together in the same relatively small county (roughly 24,000 people live in Hood River) all the weirder.

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[–] reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks ago

Well, at least this makes all the rest of the crap going down these days seem a little less scary.

Prions be proper nasty.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Dying by Prion is fucking terrifying.

[–] temporal_spider@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

This just sent me down a rabbit hole. I had no idea that there are around 500 cases of prion diseases in the USA annually, and that most of them occur with no known cause. They just happen,although not usually in clusters like this. Yike. Scary stuff.