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Default Losing Your Brain for a Burger

Alzheimer's, CJD & BSE -
Losing Your Mind For A Burger
Thinking The Unthinkable
>From Colm A Kelleher PhD

Author Brain Trust
2-15-5

Med Hypotheses. 2005;64(4):699-705.
Thinking the unthinkable: Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Mad Cow
disease: the age-related reemergence of virulent, foodborne, bovine
tuberculosis or losing your mind for the sake of a shake or burger.

Broxmeyer L.
Med-America Research, 148-14A 11th Avenue, Whitestone, NY 11357, USA.

The possibility of the age-related reemergence of foodborne
Mycobacterium bovis (bovine tuberculosis) as a vector for
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD or human Mad Cow Disease) and Mad Cow
disease itself is real. The CDC reported last May of an outbreak of CJD
linked to the consumption of meat contaminated "with the agent causing"
bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a New Jersey racetrack
between the time frame 1995-2004.

In the opinion of experts, ample justification exists for considering a
similar pathogenesis for Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt-Jakob and the other
spongiform encephalopathies such as Mad Cow disease. In fact,
Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Alzheimer's often coexist and at this point are
thought to differ merely by time-dependent physical changes.

A recent study links up to 13% of all "Alzheimer's" victims as really
having Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Bovine tuberculosis, which includes Mycobacterium bovis and M.
avium-intracellulare or paratuberculosis, is and has always been the
most prevalent threat to the cattle industry, and the USDA reports that
between 20% and 40% of US dairy herds are infected with
paratuberculosis alone.

The health risk for milk tainted with M. bovis has been known for
decades and there was a time not so long ago when "tuberculin-tested"
was printed on every milk container. Schliesser stated that meat from
tuberculous animals may also constitute a significant risk of
infection. At the turn of the 20th century 25% of the many US deaths
from TB in adults were caused by M. bovis. Dairy products aside, when
past and present meat consumption are factored in, there is three times
the risk of developing Alzheimer's in meat eaters as opposed to
vegetarians.

The investigation into the causal trail for Creutzfeldt-Jakob,
indistinguishable from Alzheimer's except for its shorter, lethal
course might have grown cold where it not for Roel's and others who
linked mad cow in cattle with M. bovis and related paratuberculosis on
clinical, pathologic and epidemiological grounds. The southwest of the
UK, the very cradle of British BSE and CJD outbreaks, saw an
exponential increase in bovine tuberculosis just prior to it's
spongiform outbreaks.

All of this brings up the unthinkable: that Alzheimer's,
Cruetzfeldt-Jackob, and Mad Cow Disease might just be caused by eating
the meat or dairy in consumer products or feed. It is only appropriate
therefore to explore the role of bovine TB and the atypical
mycobacteria in Alzheimer's, JCD and Mad Cow disease and develop better
serological surveillance for these pathogens.

http://www.colmkelleher.com

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