Who needs CDC disease outbreak investigators anyways? - ThreadSky

ryanmarino.bsky.social • 71 days ago

Who needs CDC disease outbreak investigators anyways?

In the past eight months, 3 cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) have been diagnosed in one Oregon county; 2 of them have died. CJD is the human form of mad cow disease. It’s caused by prions and it’s not known how they developed it.

CJD is 100% fatal. There is no treatment.

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janafalls.bsky.social•71 days ago

Probably the countries who are refusing to import American beef 😬

karakarlson.bsky.social•70 days ago

Didn't you know, if you're "healthy" infectious disease won't kill you!

If you die, they'll make up a reason you're not "really" healthy.

See! With airtight logic like this, who needs CDC investigators?

ghostyspook.bsky.social•70 days ago

Goodness hardly anything scares me more than prions. Awful

Do I need to be a vegetarian now? I did just buy a bunch of beans

melindamosheim.bsky.social•70 days ago

Dems in Congress do absolutely NOTHING to legally challenge anything the GOP is doing. They make me sick! They are fascist enablers and our USG is a completely dead democracy full of fascists.

wolfdaddy747.bsky.social•70 days ago

I'm sure those people had preexisting conditions like being omnivores.

artwithmckenzie.bsky.social•71 days ago

They’ve already played their hand of “if we don’t test for it, it doesn’t exist.”

We’ve also seen them do the whole “they didn’t die from COVID, they died from old age, young age, obesity, heart disease, etc…”

Anything they say about health or diseases will be propaganda.

wat3rm370n.bsky.social•70 days ago

I knew someone (a relative) who died of diagnosed CJD in the early 2000s & the CDC said they weren't counting it because they don't count it unless they confirm it by autopsy then said they almost never confirm it by autopsy🫠 CDC has been doing this don't count stuff for decades to appease industry.

jaredhardd.bsky.social•71 days ago

Make Prions Great Again!

kathiroc.bsky.social•70 days ago

Don't know about CJD (except 10% of cases are genetic & inherited), but this story about a cluster of ALS cases in a small village in the French Alps was fascinating. Do need those detectives!

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/03/als-outbreak-montchavin-mystery/682096/