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Mystery disease takes life of a North Pole leader
Linda F. Hersey
Jul 18, 2021 Updated 12 hrs ago
Johnny Lee McCoy survived multiple heart attacks and a bear mauling that broke both arms and required hundreds of stitches on his neck, head and face.
But the former North Pole mayor was no match for a devastating brain disease that strikes just one in a million Americans each year. McCoy died this summer, two weeks after doctors diagnosed him with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD).
No one is sure how he contracted the brain-wasting disease. It is always fatal...
Mystery disease takes life of a North Pole leader
Linda F. Hersey
Jul 18, 2021 Updated 12 hrs ago
Johnny Lee McCoy survived multiple heart attacks and a bear mauling that broke both arms and required hundreds of stitches on his neck, head and face.
But the former North Pole mayor was no match for a devastating brain disease that strikes just one in a million Americans each year. McCoy died this summer, two weeks after doctors diagnosed him with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD).
No one is sure how he contracted the brain-wasting disease. It is always fatal...