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> > > "Bill" > wrote in message
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> > > > Is it still only one cow that has been found in the United States to
have
> > > > the disease? I mean, the article (what of it I read, it was very
boring)
> > > > made it sound as if the was some actual danger. Maybe thousands
were
> > > > found to be infected and I didn't read about it yet?
> > >
> > > There's been speculation that many of the people who were diagnosed
with
> > > Alzheimer's in the US may have actually had CJD. I thought I read
something
> > > about the brains of people who had died from Alzheimer's being studied
and
> > > the ones doing it finding out they had died of CJD, but I can't
remember
> > > where the article is now.
> > >
> > > -Rubystars
> > >
> > There is no proof what so ever that those inflicted with Alzheimer's had
in
> > fact CJD. There was one cow found to be diseased. They said millions
would
> > die in England when they had their scare and they had thousands of
diseased
> > cattle. They had a couple of deaths there. More liberal media hocus
pocus.
> > We had one cow in Canada and not one illness. These **** wads in the
media
> > don't care how they sell papers or get ratings.
> >
> > Jeff
>
> Alzheimer's And CJD Scientifically Linked
> By Michael Greger
> 12-29-03
>
> (First published 6-16-96)
>
> If indeed a form of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
> exists in the United States, one might expect to see a rise in the
> number of cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). CJD,
> however, is not a reportable illness in this country (Holman, 1995).
> Because the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) does not actively
> monitor the disease (Altman, 1996d) a rise similar to the one in
> Britain could be missed (Altman, 1996d). Already, a number of
> U.S. CJD clusters have been found. In the largest known U.S.
> outbreak of sporadic cases to date(Flannery, 1996) a five-fold
> expected rate was found to be associated with cheese
> consumption in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley (Little, 1993) A
> striking increase in CJD was also reported in Florida (Berger,
> 1994) and there is an anecdotal report of an cluster in Oregon
> (Boule, 1996). An analysis of death certificates in a number of
> states, though, showed an overall stable and typical CJD
> incidence rate from 1979 to 1993 (World, 1996). To track the
> disease, the CDC has just initiated a four-state study of death
> certificates (Altman, 1996a), but since it is considered well
> known that death-certificate diagnoses are not always accurate
> (Davanpour, 1993) the survey may not provide an accurate
> assessment.
>
> The true prevalence of prion diseases in this or any other
> country remains a mystery (Harrison, 1991). Compounding
> the uncertainty, autopsies are rarely performed on atypical
> dementias (Harrison, 1991), because medical professionals
> fear infection (Altman, 1996a). The officially reported rate
> in this country is less than 1 case in a million people per year
> (World, 1996). An informal survey of neuropathologists,
> however, registered a theoretical range of 2-12% of all
> dementias as actually CJD (Harrison, 1991). And hundreds
> of thousands of Americans suffer from severe dementias
> every year (Brayne, 1994; United, 1995). Two other studies
> average about a 3% CJD rate among dementia patients
> (Mahendra, 1987; Wade, 1987). A preliminary 1989
> University of Pennsylvania study showed that 5% of patients
> diagnosed with dementia were actually dying from
> Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Boller, 1989). It would seem
> CJD is seriously underdiagnosed at present (Harrison, 1991).
>
> The most common misdiagnosis of CJD is Alzheimer's
> disease (Harrison, 1991). CJD was even described by
> our government's top CJD researcher (Wlazelek, 1990a)
> as "Alzheimer's in fast forward (Wlazelek, 1990b)." The
> symptoms and pathology of both diseases overlap (Brown,
> 1989). There can be spongy changes in Alzheimer's, for
> example, and senile plaques in CJD (Brown, 1989). The
> causes may overlap as well; epidemiological evidence
> suggests that people eating meat more than four times a
> week for a prolonged period have a three times higher
> chance of suffering a dementia than long-time vegetarians
> (Giem, 1993), although this result may be confounded by
> vascular factors (Van Duijn, 1996).
>
> Paul Brown, medical director for the U.S. Public Health
> Service (Gruzen, 1996), said that the brains of the young
> people who died from the new CJD variant in Britain even
> look like Alzheimer's brains (Hager, 1996). Stanley Prusinger,
> the scientist who coined the term prion, speculates Alzheimer's
> may in fact turn out to be a prion disease (Prusiner, 1984). In
> younger victims the disease could look like multiple sclerosis
> or a severe viral infection, according to Alzheimer's expert
> Gareth Roberts (Brain, 1996).
>
> An estimated two to three million Americans are afflicted by
> Alzheimer's (Scully, 1993); it is the fourth leading cause of
> death among the elderly in the U.S (Perry, 1995). Twenty
> percent or more of people clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's
> disease are found at autopsy to not have had Alzheimer's at all
> (McKhann, 1984). At Yale, out of 46 patients clinically
> diagnosed with Alzheimer's, 6 were proven to be CJD at
> autopsy (Manuelidis, 1989). In another post-mortem study 3
> out of 12 "Alzheimer" patients actually died from a spongiform
> encephalopathy (Teixeira, 1995).
>
> Carleton Gajdusek, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for his
> work with prion diseases (Manuelidis, 1985), estimates that
> 1% of people showing up in Alzheimer clinics actually have
> CJD (Folstein, 1983). That means that hundreds* of people
> (Hoyert, 1996; United, 1995) may already be dying from
> mad cow disease each year in the United States.
>
>
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> http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~tom/Alzhe...d.html#and%20C
>
> *
> 'Currently four million Americans are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
> The percentage of cases is on the rise with solid research showing that
> there are about 360,000 individuals newly diagnosed each year.
>
> At Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh,
> researchers recently studied the brains of people who died of Alzheimer's
> disease (46 in the Yale case and 54 in the Pittsburgh study).
Surprisingly,
> the autopsies respectively showed that 13 percent and five percent of the
> dead were actually CJD cases misdiagnosed as Alzheimer's disease.
>
> In a third (smaller) study published in the Journal of Psychiatry and
> Neuroscience (1995), investigators reported that three out of 12 patients
> diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease were found to have had CJD when
> autopsied. It should be noted CJD symptoms may be remarkably similar
> to those of Alzheimer's disease.
>
> There are no accurate figures for the total number of U.S. Alzheimer's
> deaths each year, simply because it doesn't usually get reported as the
> cause of death. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reported only
> 22,725 Alzheimer's deaths in 1998. However, a spokesperson for the
> National Alzheimer's Association, in a recent interview, agreed that the
> actual number could easily be 100,000, or even has high as 400,000
> per year. Because Alzheimer's patients usually die within 8 to 10 years,
> she agreed that the CDC numbers must be grossly understated. If new
> research supports that approximately 10 percent of all Alzheimer's
> disease related deaths are in fact misdiagnosed CJD cases, then 10,000
> to 40,000 CJD deaths will suddenly appear in America each year.
> That would be an epidemic. '
> http://www.parkc.org/Madcow_veggies.html
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