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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  12/6/2006 07:33 PM,Marie McHarry wrote:

> So now, on the other end of life, do you think Alzheimer's in a
> neurological disorder or are those old folks just willfully gaga?
>
> Marie

http://www.mad-cow.org/Alzheimer_cjd.html

>>A clinical series with 13% of Alzheimer actually CJD

Manuelidis, Elias E. and Laura Manuelidis Alzheimer Disease and 
Associated Disorders_ 3 (1989): 100-109 Suggested Links between 
Different Types of Dementias: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Alzheimer 
Disease, and Retroviral CNS Infections

"In our own neuropathological material, in 46 cases diagnosed 
clinically as AD [(Alzheimer's)], 6 cases were proven to be CJD at 
autopsy [13%}."<<


>>At Yale, out of 46 patients clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's, 
6 were proven to be CJD at autopsy (Manuelidis, 1989). In another 
post-mortem study 3 out of 12 "Alzheimer" patients actually died from 
a spongiform encephalopathy (Teixeira, 1995).<<

http://www.albionmonitor.com/9706a/madpig.html



>>But does the CDC really know how many Americans contract CJD? 
Evidence indicates that CJD may often be misdiagnosed, and thus go 
unreported. A 1989 study at the University of Pittsburgh autopsied 
the brains of 54 patients who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and 
discovered that three of the patients (5.5 percent of the sample) 
actually had CJD. A 1989 study at Yale University reported similar 
findings. Postmortem examination of 46 patients who had been 
diagnosed with Alzheimer's revealed that six (13 percent of the 
sample) actually had CJD. The New York-based Consumers Union, which 
publishes Consumer Reports, argued in a paper presented to the USDA, 
"Since there are over 4 million cases of Alzheimer's disease 
currently in the United States, if even a small percentage of them 
turned out to be CJD, there could be a hidden CJD epidemic." <<

Mysteries and more mysteries....

Rob
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