Health officials have confirmed a rare “100% fatal” Mad Cow-like brain disease has struck three people in the same county in Oregon . It is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and it typically results in death within a year.
According to a Hood River County Health Department press release, over the past eight months, there have been two confirmed and two probable cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. So far, in two of the three cases, the people have passed away.
What makes these cases so unusual is the fact usually only one to two cases of CJD per million people are diagnosed in the entire world each year. The United States typically sees only 350 cases annually. For three cases to appear in a county of just 23,000 people in such a short span of time significantly goes against expected probability…