[Vision2020] 9 Cases of Brain-Wasting Disease in Idaho

[Janesta Carcich]

Last summer in while in Boise, the Statesman had an
article in the back pages about this. At that time, it
was the 6th person to have died.

I find it rather disconcerting so many people have
died in such a close area.

Janesta

--- Pat Kraut <pkraut at moscow.com> wrote:

> They bury it on the back pages because they don't
> want those who don't really know about it to get all
> excited and boycott beef or anything else. What Phil
> has said is the distinction that too many do not
> understand. There is no reason to stop eating
> anything. I also have never heard that there is
> anything wrong with venison and I am an old person
> who has always been round hunters. I bet some
> reporter got the story wrong. Just because it is in
> print does not make it truth.
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Ellen Roskovich 
>   To: pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com ; vision2020 at moscow.com 
>   Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 9:21 AM
>   Subject: RE: [Vision2020] 9 Cases of Brain-Wasting
> Disease in Idaho
> 
> 
>         There have been a number af articles on this
> subject over the past few months. . . usually
> they're buried in the back pages. . . not headline
> news.  I found it interesting that brain-wasting
> disease is not limited to just cows but just about
> every warm-blooded critter in our food chain. In the
> case of the St.Maries woman, it was suggested that
> her case might be due to venison.  The article I
> read said that hunters have known for years that
> there is a danger of getting ill and dying.  That
> surprised me because I never heard it mentioned
> among friends who hunt.  They never said a thing
> when they wanted to share their pot roast!
> 
>         Ellen
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>       From:  "Phil Nisbet" <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com>
>       To:  vision2020 at moscow.com
>       Subject:  [Vision2020] 9 Cases of
> Brain-Wasting Disease in Idaho
>       Date:  Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:24:56 -0700
>      
>
>http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cjd/detail_cjd.htm
>       >
>       >Not to put to fine a point on it Dick, BSE is
> not TSE.  You can get 
>       >Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from a whole lot of
> things, including 
>       >simply being unlucky enough to get it
> genetically, but its not Mad 
>       >Cow derived.  All of the suspected cases in
> Idaho you refer to are 
>       >for TSE, in people in later life and not the
> younger folks who are 
>       >suspected of getting BSE.
>       >
>       >It looks like your AP article is alarmist in
> not pointing out that 
>       >the TSE related Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is
> completely unrelated to 
>       >Prion's found in Mad Cow's Disease.  The
> people involved are more 
>       >likely to have recieved human growth
> hormones, a cornea transplant, 
>       >or some other procedure which made them
> vulnerable to the kinds of 
>       >prion degenerative action which lead to their
> deaths.  You can even 
>       >note that two of those actually checked were
> determined not to have 
>       >TSE at all, but more likely suffered from
> some other form of 
>       >dementia, meaning that you only have three
> confirmed actual cases, 
>       >four possible cases and two which were not
> cases at all in your list 
>       >of nine.  So of the three, which had a a
> possible link to genetic 
>       >CJD or the other two possible forms?
>       >
>       >So perhaps, since the CDC does not think that
> its related to 
>       >anything is reason to assume that reality is
> that its only three 
>       >cases and that those three cases are typical
> of mormative TSE 
>       >related CJD?  That sems most likely and
> therefore not cause to go on 
>       >an anti-Beef campaign.
>       >
>       >Phil Nisbet
>       >
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Janesta Carcich

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