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"Emmanuel Gustin" wrote:

"Steve Hix" wrote in message
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cf a recent case of C-J diagnosed in a Special Forces sergeant during
the past year; the cause of infection determined most likely to be
eating sheeps brains with some tribal elders during some local
negotiations.

Curious, as scrapie in sheep is generally considered not
able to 'jump species' to humans. Perhaps Yemen has a
strain that is able to infect humans...

Well, Osama bin Laden is from Yemen -- perhaps he gorged on too many
infected sheep?