Truly a tragic loss and I too enjoyed her occasional posts at the 'Cat. My best thoughts to her good friends and family and all those who knew her best. I would wish her a quick passing. This is a horrible disease.

Karen and I were just talking about CJD the other day. It comes up in our conversations about once a month. Like most of you I had never heard of CJD until I married a lab tech 20 years ago. I was worried about her field of woork and all the possibilities for diseases such as AIDS. I soon found that lab folks pretty much laugh most of that stuff off as they closely follow sterile techniques in "fixing" the tissue samples for processing. What they all fear the most and I do mean FEAR is CJD. It is very rare but you can't kill it through normal means and often the brain tissue sample is not known or even suspected of CJD. There is a lot to be said of the disease, but you don't want to know. It moves quickly though and is like Alzheimer's to the Nth degree.

Again, all my best thoughts to her family.

Spaw