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- noun rare (usually fatal) brain disease (usually in middle age) caused by an unidentified slow virus; characterized by progressive dementia and gradual loss of muscle control
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Mainstream theory said 100s of thousands were going to die of cjd.
MORE ALARISM! 2009
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Soon you will need the survival instincts in both the cities and in the wild and this is why they are trying to infect the entire deer population with cjd and chronic wasting disease so that the true survivalists will find it harder to survive in the woods.
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Association Foundation (JJY), the North Carolina University Cancer Research Fund (JJY), and the NCI SPORE in Gastrointestinal Cancer P50 CA106991 (jjy, cjd), NCI SPORE in SPORE in Breast
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