Idaho probes rare brain disease deaths

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Mystery surrounds five cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in same area
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8964056

TWIN FALLS, Idaho - In late May Marjorie Skinner played golf well enough to place fourth in a Memorial Day weekend golf tournament. Yet within weeks, the previously vibrant retiree suddenly started losing her ability to speak.

By the time her family buried her Friday, she was the fifth suspected victim in the same sparsely populated area of Idaho of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a rare brain-wasting disease that typically afflicts only one in a million people.

As word of this latest death spread Monday, local and federal health experts sifted through clues about an illness different from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, the human form of mad cow disease.

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1. Why was this moved from LBN?