How many deaths from creutzfeldt-jakob disease in the US?

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Not too many. Mostly in backwards remote areas of africa where they live in grass huts. They get it from eating the brains/spinal cords of their dead relatives. The mad cow deaths have mostly been in brittan.
Thing is... it can take a long time for it to start to show... then you have less than one year to live.

"The risk of CJD increases with age, and in persons aged over 50 years of age, the annual rate is approximately 3.4 cases per million. In recent years, the United States has reported fewer than 300 cases of CJD a year." - From second link, I wasn't really thinking that it was that many.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt-Jakob
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/cjd/

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