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'Currently four million Americans are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. The percentage of cases is
on the rise with solid research showing that there are about 360,000 individuals newly diagnosed
each year.
At Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh, researchers recently studied
the brains of people who died of Alzheimer's disease (46 in the Yale case and 54 in the Pittsburgh
study). Surprisingly, the autopsies respectively showed that 13 percent and five percent of the dead
were actually CJD cases misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease.
In a third (smaller) study published in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (1995),
investigators reported that three out of 12 patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease were found
to have had CJD when autopsied. It should be noted CJD symptoms may be remarkably similar to those
of Alzheimer's disease.
There are no accurate figures for the total number of U.S. Alzheimer's deaths each year, simply
because it doesn't usually get reported as the cause of death. The Center for Disease Control (CDC)
reported only 22,725 Alzheimer's deaths in 1998. However, a spokesperson for the National
Alzheimer's Association, in a recent interview, agreed that the actual number could easily be
100,000, or even has high as 400,000 per year. Because Alzheimer's patients usually die within 8 to
10 years, she agreed that the CDC numbers must be grossly understated. If new research supports that
approximately 10 percent of all Alzheimer's disease related deaths are in fact misdiagnosed CJD
cases, then 10,000 to 40,000 CJD deaths will suddenly appear in America each year. That would be an
epidemic. ' http://www.parkc.org/Madcow_veggies.html
Mad Cow, Alzheimer's and CJD http://rense.com/general46/proofa.html
on the rise with solid research showing that there are about 360,000 individuals newly diagnosed
each year.
At Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh, researchers recently studied
the brains of people who died of Alzheimer's disease (46 in the Yale case and 54 in the Pittsburgh
study). Surprisingly, the autopsies respectively showed that 13 percent and five percent of the dead
were actually CJD cases misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease.
In a third (smaller) study published in the Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience (1995),
investigators reported that three out of 12 patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease were found
to have had CJD when autopsied. It should be noted CJD symptoms may be remarkably similar to those
of Alzheimer's disease.
There are no accurate figures for the total number of U.S. Alzheimer's deaths each year, simply
because it doesn't usually get reported as the cause of death. The Center for Disease Control (CDC)
reported only 22,725 Alzheimer's deaths in 1998. However, a spokesperson for the National
Alzheimer's Association, in a recent interview, agreed that the actual number could easily be
100,000, or even has high as 400,000 per year. Because Alzheimer's patients usually die within 8 to
10 years, she agreed that the CDC numbers must be grossly understated. If new research supports that
approximately 10 percent of all Alzheimer's disease related deaths are in fact misdiagnosed CJD
cases, then 10,000 to 40,000 CJD deaths will suddenly appear in America each year. That would be an
epidemic. ' http://www.parkc.org/Madcow_veggies.html
Mad Cow, Alzheimer's and CJD http://rense.com/general46/proofa.html