1. CJD is only one specific instance of Prion disease. Others (e.g. vCJD) have incubation periods of - multiple decades -. From the article: "In the original Alzheimer’s transmissibility study, scientists examined the brains of eight patients treated with prion-contaminated human growth hormone as children who decades later died from prion disease"
Alzheimers is growing at epidemic proportions, globally [1].
Alzheimers in the US is growing at alarming rates [2].
Is occurrence increasing alarmingly, or is it just being more properly diagnosed? "Senility" and "old age" may not have been properly isolated last century.
Alzheimers is growing at epidemic proportions, globally [1].
Alzheimers in the US is growing at alarming rates [2].
[1] https://www.alzheimers.net/alzheimers-is-on-the-rise-in-thes...
[2] https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/facts-figures