CJD is a horrific disease. Whether it’s the variant CJD that is caused by eating animals with BSE, or the sporadic variety that seems to come out of nowhere, it’s a bad way to die. Sporadic CJD happens all over the world. But fortunately it is rare, striking on average about one person in a million per year. So when it was revealed that the state of Idaho, population not much more than 1 million, has had no fewer than seven cases of sporadic CJD since February, you can’t blame people there for being a bit rattled.
No one is…
