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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 yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's <BR>>FREE! <BR>>http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/<BR>><BR>>_____________________________________________________<BR>>List services made available by First Step Internet, serving the <BR>>communities of the Palouse since 1994.
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