A deadly new type of dementia has been discovered in 16 Americans, and of those, it has killed 10.

Similar but distinct from the fatal and incurable degenerative neurological disorder Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, it causes its victims to gradually lose the ability to think, speak and move.

How the disease originates, if and how it spreads, and how many people have suffered from it are all unknown. Spooky, right? OK, now cue minute 00:55 of below "The Happening" trailer.

Just a coincidence, certainly.
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