The grim reaper can sometimes take decades to catch up with its victims. In a report out this week, scientists describe a woman who died from an incurable prion disease caught roughly 50 years earlie… [+4351 chars]
U.S. Woman Dies From Mad Cow-Like Brain Disease That Lay Dormant for 50 Years - Gizmodo
A woman's human growth hormone treatments in childhood may have sealed her fate decades later, according to a new case report.
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