Alf Christophersen > wrote in message >. ..
> On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:34:55 GMT, (PropMan) wrote:
>
> >But the only way to make a definitive diagnosis is to do a detailed
> >examination of the brain after death. The brains of vCJD patients have
> >telltale deposits of plaque. There are also subtle differences in the
> >prion proteins that can be detected by chemical analysis.
>
> Sounds more and more like an AGE disease where proteins are deformed
> by abnormal glycations and form new tertiary structures, like the
> typical beta-pleated sheet that prions form.
>
> In case, it is possible that the reason is rather in a fatal
> combination of too high sugar use in diet and lack of antioxidants.
Or a meat eater's disease.
Mad Cow Causes BOTH
'Sporadic' CJD and vCJD
1-3-4
Mad Cow - Linked To Thousands Of CJD Cases?
"People who develop CJD from eating mad cow contaminated beef have
been thought to develop a specific form of the disorder called variant
CJD. But new research, released last December, indicates the mad cow
pathogen can cause both sporadic CJD and the variant form, vCJD."
By Steve Mitchell United Press International 1-3-4
(UPI via COMTEX) -- The U.S. government's monitoring system for cases
of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal human brain illness, could be
missing tens of thousands of victims, scientists and consumer
advocates have told United Press International.
The rest of the article may be found at:
http://www.rense.com/general47/spor.htm
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