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<DIV><FONT size=4>Ellen, et al,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Eaters of venison and especially wild fowl who graze/eat in
areas with certain plants and with higher than normal thallium content of the
soil risk losing hair and irreversible shrinkage of the gonads. I
know of one rather amusing case of this -- amusing because the victims were
habitual and egregious poachers.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=gussie443@hotmail.com href="mailto:gussie443@hotmail.com">Ellen
Roskovich</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 24, 2005 9:21
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Vision2020] 9 Cases of
Brain-Wasting Disease in Idaho</DIV>
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<P><STRONG>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!</STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG>Ellen</STRONG></P></TD></TR>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>"Phil Nisbet"
<pcnisbet1@hotmail.com></I><BR>To: <I>vision2020@moscow.com</I><BR>Subject: <I>[Vision2020]
9 Cases of Brain-Wasting Disease in Idaho</I><BR>Date: <I>Mon,
24 Oct 2005 08:24:56
-0700</I><BR>>http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cjd/detail_cjd.htm<BR>><BR>>Not
to put to fine a point on it Dick, BSE is not TSE. You can get
<BR>>Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from a whole lot of things, including
<BR>>simply being unlucky enough to get it genetically, but its not Mad
<BR>>Cow derived. All of the suspected cases in Idaho you
refer to are <BR>>for TSE, in people in later life and not the younger
folks who are <BR>>suspected of getting BSE.<BR>><BR>>It looks
like your AP article is alarmist in not pointing out that <BR>>the TSE
related Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is completely unrelated to
<BR>>Prion's found in Mad Cow's Disease. The people involved
are more <BR>>likely to have recieved human growth hormones, a cornea
transplant, <BR>>or some other procedure which made them vulnerable to
the kinds of <BR>>prion degenerative action which lead to their
deaths. You can even <BR>>note that two of those actually
checked were determined not to have <BR>>TSE at all, but more likely
suffered from some other form of <BR>>dementia, meaning that you only
have three confirmed actual cases, <BR>>four possible cases and two
which were not cases at all in your list <BR>>of nine. So of
the three, which had a a possible link to genetic <BR>>CJD or the other
two possible forms?<BR>><BR>>So perhaps, since the CDC does not
think that its related to <BR>>anything is reason to assume that
reality is that its only three <BR>>cases and that those three cases
are typical of mormative TSE <BR>>related CJD? That sems
most likely and therefore not cause to go on <BR>>an anti-Beef
campaign.<BR>><BR>>Phil
Nisbet<BR>><BR>>_________________________________________________________________<BR>>Express
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