Any time you have more cases of a disease than you expect, you want to know why. |
The median amount of time from when the symptoms start to when they do die is four to five months and these individuals that we have seen usually have been little less than that. |
There are things that lead you to believe this is not variant CJD. |
We are going back and talking to each of the families again to get a very specific history on these individuals and then we will compare that. |
We're asking them if they've consumed elk. We're not having many people say that they have. |