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Is there any evidence that this is CJD or a different pryon disease? From the article, it seemed like a few people did have CJD, but most came back negative.

Either way, definitely seems like the NB government is trying to cover something up.

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No, association with CJD is simply due to it being the most mysterious neurodegenerative disease and the last one to be tested (also pryons are hard to detect without knowing which protein exactly to examine).

Either they are covering something up or perhaps they are concerned that some of these cases are actually just social contagion.

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