In April 2025, three people in Oregon developed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a rare, fatal neurological condition that is similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease. It impacts one or two people per million each year, making the chances of three cases emerging in the same small geographic area quite low. This outbreak is currently under investigation, but there may not be a simple explanation; for the majority of CJD cases, the infectious source is unknown.
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