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Default Mad Cow Variant That Hits Humans Is a Puzzle


"Jim Webster" > wrote in message
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> "Ron" > wrote in message
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> > Alf Christophersen > wrote in message

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> > > On Sat, 03 Jan 2004 06:34:55 GMT, (PropMan) wrote:
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> > > >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.
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> > > 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.

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> > Or a meat eater's disease.
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> actually the proportion of vegetarians in the UK who have developed nvCJD

is
> about the same as the proportion they form of the population.,


Crap.

The one so called 'vegetarian' who got nvCJD "occasionally ate meat".

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> Vegetarians have their children vaccinated from vaccines grown on bovine
> foetal serum etc


So?

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> Jim Webster
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