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A rare and deadly brain disease with a 100% fatality rate has now struck three people in Hood River County, Oregon — a statistical anomaly that has local health officials scrambling for answers.
As reported by Live Science, one case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has been officially confirmed via autopsy, while two more are considered probable, based on symptoms and medical evaluations. Two of the individuals have already died.
The announcement came via a statement released April 14 by the Hood River County Health Department, which confirmed that these three cases — all in the same small county of just 24,000 residents — have surfaced in the
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