Lotus wrote in message
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"Jim Webster" wrote in message
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Carleton Gajdusek, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his work with
prion diseases
(Manuelidis,1985), estimates that 1% of people showing up in Alzheimer
clinics actually
have CJD (Folstein, 1983).

pity that this was before BSE blew up isn't it


--
Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'