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Is there a disease that kills by preventing sleep?

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The History of CJD

Deer and elk might get chronic wasting disease in the western US if you see a deer that is really skinny and drooling and can't swallow. I've seen that humans can have that as well but I don't know if it's the same version. No it doesn't seem like it because I think it's in patients that have died from AIDS. And then Chuck also going back to CJD which is what we call it now officially forever. It's about Jacob.

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