Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - SourceWatch: "CJD and Alzheimer's Disease
Other studies have challenged the assumption that sporadic CJD is a rare, 'one in a million' occurrence. In 1989, a Yale University team performed autopsies on the brains of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and found that 13 percent had CJD. A similar investigation found three of 12 patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's to actually have a TSE disease. A larger University of Pittsburg study 'found a misdiagnosis rate of 5 percent, and estimated there may be 200,000 cases of CJD in the U.S. each year which are misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's.' [7][8][9] "