Could it be that some Alzheimer's patients in fact have BSE?
Who knows. I wish I could find the link, but I once read a study where some medical students took a bunch of people who were supposed to have Alzheimers and drastically reduced the number of medications that these elderly were taking. About half of the elderly returned to normal rationality. This would seem to indicate that many elderly don't have Alzheimers but instead are overwhelmed by overmedication.
I do know that my mother-in-law began to act like she was getting Alzheimers but the symptoms went away when my wife got her to stop taking Paxil. The doctor prescribed it to her shortly after 9-11 because she was getting upset after spending 3 straight days watching the Twin Towers collapse over and over on CNN. My wife cured her by making her turn off the TV, stopping the Paxil and taking long walks. One wonders how many other elderly are simply drugged into irrationality through overmedication.
I know a woman whose mother died of it last year at 68. They initially thought she had Alzheimers but the progression of the disease was so fast they knew it was something else. In that situation her mother only lived a few months after onset of the symptoms.
Symptoms of vCJD are quite a bit uglier than those of Alzheimer's.
...something like a more aggravated and terminal MS.
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