>>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).<<
>>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." <<