TheWeasel

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and eating squirrel brains Spongiform encephalopathies have been reported in a variety of large and small mammals.1 While conducting a study of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in south Florida, one of us (JRB) observed an affec...

Not impossible. Probability must be really low though, given the millions of CWD deer that have been eaten in states like Colorado, for decades.

I’m betting on a vCJD genetic connection, a fluke, or squirrel brain on the menu. Mostly joking about the last one. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I can, a few options.
A) It's Classic CJD, they're family members. Sad, but it happens.

B) It's a weird statistical anomaly of the random CJD rates (1 in 1 Million, Oregon pop ~4 mil. Math works)

C) From a Cow with BSE (BAD!)

D) From a CWD deer (CATASTROPHIC!)