Does anyone care?

Carbonated_Brains · 06-25-2005, 10:18 PM

I'm sorry, but that's a horribly flawed and uninformed thing to say.

You have no idea whether CJ and Alzheimers are similar from a medical standpoint.

It infects one in a million people worldwide, yearly, making it extreme rare. There are three types, "sporadic", "hereditary", and "acquired".

Sporadic accounts for 85+% of cases, people with no risk factors, and nobody knows how they get the disease.

Hereditary is exactly as it sounds, 10% of cases are hereditary.

Acquired accounts for less than 1%, and is when the person is exposed to infected brain matter or nervous system material. So 1% of 1/1,000,000 of cases are from infected cows and other contaminants (bad surgery procedure, etc).

Boy, am I ever scared.

06-25-2005, 10:18 PM	#9
Carbonated_Brains Does it show up here when I type? Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Between the smoky layers of a prosciutto sandwich! Posts: 355	I'm sorry, but that's a horribly flawed and uninformed thing to say. You have no idea whether CJ and Alzheimers are similar from a medical standpoint. It infects one in a million people worldwide, yearly, making it extreme rare. There are three types, "sporadic", "hereditary", and "acquired". Sporadic accounts for 85+% of cases, people with no risk factors, and nobody knows how they get the disease. Hereditary is exactly as it sounds, 10% of cases are hereditary. Acquired accounts for less than 1%, and is when the person is exposed to infected brain matter or nervous system material. So 1% of 1/1,000,000 of cases are from infected cows and other contaminants (bad surgery procedure, etc). Boy, am I ever scared.

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