On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 21:34:46 -0000, "Jim Webster"
> wrote:
>
>"pearl" > wrote in message
...
>> > it is quite simple. We are monitoring a population, which is rather
>bigger
>> > and probably more important than a person. If the disease is not present
>in
>> > a population, then the person cannot get it. If the disease is present
>in a
>> > population, then it is a risk to the individuals.
>> > Also remember that there have been claims that millions of UK citizens
>will
>> > die. When we callously refused to die and thus put a lot of lobby groups
>> > noses out of joint. So they said actually we were just incubating it and
>> > would all die later (which is in a way true, everyone dies later) so
>they
>> > run these tests on tonsils and discover that in our brutally
>uncooperative
>> > way, we aren't even incubating it.
>> >
>> > Jim Webster
>>
>> '..the director of the UK CJD Surveillance Unit warned that current
>> tests might vastly under-represent the risk of infection.
>>
>> Professor James Ironside told the BBC last night that the tests were
>> not sensitive enough to identify all those infected with the human form
>> of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).
>>
>
>So what. We have found NONE! Sorry and all that, but there will be no huge
>corpse fest.
>
>3000 tissue samples.
>So if we were going to get 4 million dead (a figure much mooted by those
>shroud waving to get their grant allocation increased in the early days)
>then we would expect out of a population of 60 million (round figures) we
>would expect one in 15 samples to be infected
>
>Out of 3000 samples that would be 200.
>
>
>So the test isn't that sensitive, we might miss 50%. Fine, we would expect
>100 positive samples. Yet there are NONE
>The Guardian has papers to sell and James Ironside obviously needs more
>funding for surveillance, after all he doesn't want the UK CJD
>Surveillance Unit to be wound down because there is nothing out there to
>look for.
>
>Jim Webster
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practice, not to mention your ability to claim you own land you
don't!!!
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