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2004 Mad Cow Disease Scare in Australia (Not)



 
 
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Old 28-04-2007, 10:13 PM posted to rec.food.cooking
Mark Thorson
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Default 2004 Mad Cow Disease Scare in Australia (Not)

This is amusing:

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/tra...s/s1203319.htm

A hospital held a news conference to announce that
over a thousand brain and spinal cord patients
were being contacted about possible transmission
through contaminated surgical instruments from
a patient that died of CJD.

Some journalists were under the wrong impression
that CJD = Mad Cow Disease. vCJD is the human
form of Mad Cow Disease, but classic CJD is not.
Classic CJD can be transmitted through contaminated
instruments, but it is not Mad Cow Disease.

But the wrong story ran away while the facts
were still getting their shoes on.
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Old 28-04-2007, 11:03 PM posted to rec.food.cooking
Christopher Helms
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Default 2004 Mad Cow Disease Scare in Australia (Not)

Here in the US, Mad Cow Disease outbreaks just aren't considered
important enough to report on. Our media concentrates on important
stuff, like Britney spears hair.

http://homepage.mac.com/jimjohnson/i...61/E486832619/


http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/jersey12104.cfm


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Old 28-04-2007, 11:29 PM posted to rec.food.cooking
Blinky the Shark
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Default 2004 Mad Cow Disease Scare in Australia (Not)

Mark Thorson wrote:
This is amusing:

http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/tra...s/s1203319.htm

A hospital held a news conference to announce that
over a thousand brain and spinal cord patients
were being contacted about possible transmission
through contaminated surgical instruments from
a patient that died of CJD.

Some journalists were under the wrong impression
that CJD = Mad Cow Disease. vCJD is the human
form of Mad Cow Disease, but classic CJD is not.


Ah! DCD. Denny Crane Disease.


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Old 29-04-2007, 12:17 AM posted to rec.food.cooking
Brigitte
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Default 2004 Mad Cow Disease Scare in Australia (Not)

On Apr 28, 4:03 pm, Christopher Helms wrote:
Here in the US, Mad Cow Disease outbreaks just aren't considered
important enough to report on. Our media concentrates on important
stuff, like Britney spears hair.

http://homepage.mac.com/jimjohnson/i...61/E486832619/

http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/jersey12104.cfm




Mad cow disease = Alzheimers

 




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