"Jon Leipzig" > wrote in message ...
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> "pearl" > wrote in message news:
> > "Jon Leipzig" > wrote in message news:
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> > Could Mad Cow Disease Already be Killing Thousands of Americans Every Year?
> > by Michael Greger, M.D.
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> Pearl you're such a gem.

That's sweet of you.

> Notice this is a question, not a statement.

Yes. A question which is thoroughly addressed in the article.

> (could Mad Martians be causing Mad Human Disease??)

There is no reason to think it. No supporting evidence.

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October 2001, 34-year-old Washington State native Peter Putnam started losing his
mind. One month he was delivering a keynote business address, the next he couldn't
form a complete sentence. Once athletic, soon he couldn't walk. Then he couldn't eat.
After a brain biopsy showed it was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, his doctor could no
longer offer any hope. "Just take him home and love him,"
> >>the doctor counseled his family.[1,2,3] Peter's tragic death, October 2002,
> >>may have been caused by Mad Cow disease.
>
> keyword: may

No. Keywords: '34-year-old', and 'a brain biopsy showed it
was Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease'. -You should be aware that
a key feature of vCJD is that it can strike down young people.

> >These were the first five named victims of Britain's Mad Cow epidemic.
> >They died from what the British
> >Secretary of Health called the worst form of death imaginable,
> >Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,
> >a relentlessly progressive and invariably fatal human dementia.
>
> Well, no, they they didn't die from MC,

It doesn't say that. Read it again.

> they died from CJD,

That is what it says.

> variations of which have been around long before the first MC.

That is correct.

'TSEs are a mysterious class of diseases that are called by different
names in different species. For instance some identified types of TSE
are Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), and its specific strain, new
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD) which is a human disease
apparently caused by the same agent which causes bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE) or British "mad cow" disease, Fatal Familial
Insomnia (FFA), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Syndrome (GSS),
scrapie in sheep, transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) in mink in
North America, and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk in
North America. There may be different strains of TSE within species,
and new strains may be produced when TSEs move from one animal
species to another.

The common characteristics of TSE diseases are that they are
invariably fatal. '
http://www.icta.org/legal/madcow.htm

> > It is now considered an "incontestable fact" that these human deaths in Britain were
> > caused by Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow disease
>
> No surprise it's considered "incontestable", no naysayers are allowed to the
> party.
> Yes it is a party (just keep focused on these evil Prions, and you'll get
> lotsa dough for "research")
> They won't fund anyone with a different point of view.

Sounds like you have an axe to grind. Have you applied for
research funds? What is your hypothesis, Jon? Based on what?


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