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From: TSS (216-119-163-237.ipset45.wt.net)
Hunters' deaths invite theories about disease 04/08/03 Since late 2001, a human brain-wasting disease, similar to mad cow disease, has killed at least three deer and elk hunters with links to Washington state. Two of the men were acquaintances from the same Washington town. The third was an Alaska man, with no known connection to the other two, who was treated at a Seattle hospital. Doctors would not release the men's names or home towns for privacy reasons. All three died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or CJD, a fatal illness thought to be caused by prions: rogue proteins concentrated in the nervous system. Doctors think prions also cause mad cow disease and chronic wasting disease, a similar illness in mule deer, white-tailed deer and elk. All three diseases open small holes in brain tissues and so are called "spongiform encephalopathies" -- sponge-like brain diseases. snip... see full text below;
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