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Possibe Creutzfeldt-Jakob case on Cape Cod...will the 'Mad Cow' horror show begin?

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the name for the human version of Mad Cow disease, caused by a troublesome improperly folded prion. Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE) can cause humans to become diseased, but that is very uncommon.

These 'spongy-brain' diseases are caused by prions, which are essentially nothing more than strands of mis-folded proteins that, during normal

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Well its almost been a month, again, since my last post. Without taking you through the line of been working a lot and all that, well I've been working a lot. Things are really going well. Business is still up considerably from this time last year. The economy is really starting to take a toll though. Two weeks ago my pork prices jumped almost $.30 in one week.

$396,000 a Year for Life Saving Drug for ONE. MAN.

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How can this be?

T.C. Swann is a hemophiliac, someone who is subject to uncontrollable bleeding because their body doesn’t produce enough proteins needed to clot blood.

The 23-year-old’s prescription cost $33,000 for a monthly dose.

No argument: the guy is entitled to live as normal a life as possible.

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