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3rd suspect vCJD case USA in young female

flounder

Well-known member
Family fighting for answers about daughter's disease

Reported by: Kristen Cosby
Email: [email protected]
Last Update: 4/18 9:57 pm


JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A family is fighting for answers about their dying daughter.

Her family says doctors tell them 23 year old Rachel Woodard has a rare brain disease that could be the human form of mad cow. She's been hospitalized for five months after she started having severe seizures.

"I'm scared to death I'm going to lose my daughter," said her dad Norman Woodard.

Rachel's family says doctors have told them she has Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease... or CJD.

"He said he was 99 percent positive that's what it is," said Rachel's Aunt Loretta Mallard.

CJD can come from eating an animal diseased with mad cow. It can also hit people completely by random.

"There is no treatment for cjd. its by definition a universally fatal disease," said epidemiologist Roger Sanderson.

CBS47 can't confirm in Rachel has CJD. Privacy laws prevent her doctors from talking about her health, but CJD can only truly be confirmed by a brain autopsy.

The family says doctors are doubting their original diagnosis. Rachel's dad wants a second opinion, but he doesn't have the power of surrogacy. Rachel gave that to her boyfriend.

"I'm more scared of the hospitals misdiagnoses more than anything else. i'm scared she's going to die of a misdiagnoses," said Woodard.

Rachel's boyfriend, who has power attorney, wants to protect what is left of Rachel's privacy. He says after numerous attempts by medical experts, Rachel's family has failed to accept or understand the true diagnosis. In response to her family's request of a second opinion, he says Shands was her second opinion because she was previously admitted back in December.


http://www.cbs47.com/content/topstories/story.aspx?content_id=a37723ac-599c-4d3a-a810-d4c670df9a7b&rss=1


THESE cases that have come about recently in the very young are most disturbing.


a 22 year old last week died, she is suspect nvCJD. never left US. PORTSMOUTH, Va. -- A 22-year-old Portsmouth woman is close to dying, and
family says doctors believe the human equivalent of Mad Cow Disease could be the reason.

another young female suspect nvCJD that is 26 years old in Alabama, She is in the final stages of CJD. She is at home in a hospital bed...very skinny...and at times in the past month has had some eating and swallowing issues. Sometimes she rallies and starts eating again. She stopped walking at Christmas. they do not expect her to live much longer than May, since that would be 14 months since her first major symptom of CJD (personal communication).

AND now, a 3rd young female, 23 years old. hmmm, i am pondering about just how long all those downers were in the school lunch program, and IS the incubation period catching up now ??? is this a first of many more to come ???


Progress Report from the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance
Center April 3, 2008


Progress Report from the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance
Center

An Update from Stephen M. Sergay, MB, BCh & Pierluigi Gambetti, MD

April 3, 2008

Dear Member:

Once again we are writing to thank you for your continued support in
enhancing surveillance of prion diseases in the United States and to bring
you up to date on the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center
(NPDPSC).

In large part because of your support, the number of cases examined by
biopsy, autopsy and 14-3-3 protein determination has increased significantly
over the years (see Tables 1 and 2). We are now able to establish a
definitive diagnosis of prion disease in an estimated 60–70% of the cases in
the United States, a percentage which exceeds that in even some major
surveillance centers. In addition, we receive from you cerebrospinal fluid
(CSF) for 14-3-3 determination, a surrogate protein which is helpful in the
diagnosis of prion disease, probably in most if not all cases of suspected
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). We are making constant efforts to reach our
goal of at least 80% definitively diagnosed cases.

The major obstacle to our further increasing the autopsy rate remains the
inadequate reporting of suspected cases of CJD to the NPDPSC or to the State
Health Department, which in turn would notify us. Since you are the one
likely to request the 14-3-3 test on these cases, please include in your
request the information needed to contact you, which we will do if the test
proves positive. If your institution uses a referral laboratory to send us
the CSF, please provide your name, phone, and fax numbers to the lab, which
will in turn submit it to us along with the sample. If this information is
missing in the request accompanying the CSF sample (as it happens in about
30% of the cases), we will be unable to contact the caregiving physician.
Having your contact information would also allow us to send results directly
to you, thus reducing turnaround times. ...


snip...


Prion surveillance in cattle has been reduced by 90% (from about 470,000 to
40,000 in the U.S. in 2007 out of about 35 million cattle slaughtered).
Termination of human prion surveillance would therefore remove the second
line of surveillance, thereby eliminating prion surveillance in the U.S.
entirely. This development would be extremely worrisome in view of recent
reports that precautions to limit the spread of the prion infectious agent
may not have been followed in some slaughter houses in the U.S.
Cattle affected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) continue to be
discovered in Canada, which has more rigorous BSE surveillance than the U.S.
At the same time, Canada imposes few limitations in the trade of potentially
prion-infectious cattle with the U.S.

snip...

Atypical forms of BSE have emerged which, although rare, appear to be more
virulent than the classical BSE that causes vCJD.


please see full text with additional comments and links @ ;


http://prionunitusaupdate2008.blogspot.com/



MAD COW DISEASE terminology UK c-BSE (typical), atypical BSE H or L, and or
Italian L-BASE

http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2008/03/mad-cow-disease-terminology-uk-c-bse.html

SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM FROM DOWNER CATTLE UPDATE

http://downercattle.blogspot.com/

SRM MAD COW RECALL 406 THOUSAND POUNDS CATTLE HEADS WITH TONSILS KANSAS

http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/2008/04/srm-mad-cow-recall-406-thousand-pounds.html

SPECIFIED RISK MATERIALS

http://madcowspontaneousnot.blogspot.com/2008/02/specified-risk-materials-srm.html

APHIS-2006-0041-0006 TSE advisory committee for the meeting December 15,
2006


http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/ContentViewer?objectId=09000064801f3413&disposition=attachment&contentType=msw8


Subject: [Docket No. FSIS-2006-0011] FSIS Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/2006-0011/2006-0011-1.pdf


[Docket No. 03-025IFA] FSIS Prohibition of the Use of Specified Risk
Materials for Human Food and Requirement for the Disposition of
Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle

9/13/2005

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/03-025IFA/03-025IFA-2.pdf


BSE; MRR; IMPORTATION OF LIVE BOVINES AND PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM BOVINES
[Docket No. APHIS-2006-0041] RIN 0579-AC01

GWs BSE MRR policy, The legal trading of all strains of TSE Globally $$$


[Federal Register: January 9, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 5)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 1101-1129]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr09ja07-21]



http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064801f8152



BSE; MRR; IMPORTATION OF LIVE BOVINES AND PRODUCTS
DERIVED FROM BOVINES [Docket No. APHIS-2006-0041] RIN 0579-AC01
Date: January 9, 2007 at 9:08 am PST


http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064801f3412



CJD USA RISING


*Acquired in UK
** Acquired in Saudi Arabia
*** Includes 17 inconclusive and 9 pending (1 from 2006, 8 from 2007.
**** Includes 17 non-vCJD type unknown (2 from 1996, 2 from 1997, 1
from 2001, 1 from 2003, 4 from 2004, 3 from 2005, 4 from 2006) and 36
type pending (2 from 2005, 8 from 2006, 26 from 2007).

Notes:

-- Cases are listed based on the year of death when available. If the
year of death is not available, the year of sample receipt is used.

-- Referrals: Cases with possible or probable prion disease from
which brain tissue or blood in the case of familial disease were submitted.

-- Inconclusive: Cases in which the samples were not sufficient to
make a diagnosis.

-- Non-vCJD type unknown are cases in which the tissue submitted was
adequate to establish the presence but not the type; in all cases,
vCJD could be excluded.

--
Communicated by:
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. <[email protected]>

[In submitting these data, Terry S. Singeltary Sr. draws attention to
the steady increase in the "type unknown" category, which, according
to their definition, comprises cases in which vCJD could be excluded.
The total of 26 cases for the current year (2007) is disturbing,
possibly symptomatic of the circulation of novel agents.
Characterization of these agents should be given a high priority. - Mod.CP]


http://www.promedmail.org/pls/askus/f?p=2400:1001:6833194127530602005::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1010,39963



There is a growing number of human CJD cases, and they were presented last
week in San Francisco by Luigi Gambatti(?) from his CJD surveillance
collection.

He estimates that it may be up to 14 or 15 persons which display selectively
SPRPSC and practically no detected RPRPSC proteins.


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/1006-4240t1.htm


http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/transcripts/2006-4240t1.pdf


JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY

MARCH 26, 2003

RE-Monitoring the occurrence of emerging forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob

disease in the United States

Email Terry S. Singeltary:

[email protected]

I lost my mother to hvCJD (Heidenhain Variant CJD). I would like to

comment on the CDC's attempts to monitor the occurrence of emerging

forms of CJD. Asante, Collinge et al [1] have reported that BSE

transmission to the 129-methionine genotype can lead to an alternate

phenotype that is indistinguishable from type 2 PrPSc, the commonest

sporadic CJD. However, CJD and all human TSEs are not reportable

nationally. CJD and all human TSEs must be made reportable in every

state and internationally. I hope that the CDC does not continue to

expect us to still believe that the 85%+ of all CJD cases which are

sporadic are all spontaneous, without route/source. We have many TSEs in

the USA in both animal and man. CWD in deer/elk is spreading rapidly and

CWD does transmit to mink, ferret, cattle, and squirrel monkey by

intracerebral inoculation. With the known incubation periods in other

TSEs, oral transmission studies of CWD may take much longer. Every

victim/family of CJD/TSEs should be asked about route and source of this

agent. To prolong this will only spread the agent and needlessly expose

others. In light of the findings of Asante and Collinge et al, there

should be drastic measures to safeguard the medical and surgical arena

from sporadic CJDs and all human TSEs. I only ponder how many sporadic

CJDs in the USA are type 2 PrPSc?

http://www.neurology.org/cgi/eletters/60/2/176#535


THE PATHOLOGICAL PROTEIN

Hardcover, 304 pages plus photos and illustrations. ISBN 0-387-95508-9

June 2003

BY Philip Yam


CHAPTER 14 LAYING ODDS

Answering critics like Terry Singeltary, who feels that the U.S. under-
counts CJD, Schonberger conceded that the current surveillance system
has errors but stated that most of the errors will be confined to the older
population.

http://www.thepathologicalprotein.com/


doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(03)00715-1
Copyright © 2003 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Newsdesk

Tracking spongiform encephalopathies in North America

Xavier Bosch

Available online 29 July 2003.
Volume 3, Issue 8, August 2003, Page 463


"My name is Terry S Singeltary Sr, and I live in Bacliff, Texas. I lost my
mom to hvCJD (Heidenhain variant CJD) and have been searching for answers
ever since. What I have found is that we have not been told the truth. CWD
in deer and elk is a small portion of a much bigger problem." ...


http://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473309903007151/fulltext

http://download.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/1473-3099/PIIS1473309903007151.pdf



Diagnosis and Reporting of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Singeltary, Sr et al. JAMA.2001; 285: 733-734.


Vol. 285 No. 6, February 14, 2001 JAMA


Diagnosis and Reporting of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first
150 words of the full text and any section headings.


To the Editor: In their Research Letter, Dr Gibbons and colleagues1 reported
that the annual US death rate due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) has
been stable since 1985. These estimates, however, are based only on reported
cases, and do not include misdiagnosed or preclinical cases. It seems to me
that misdiagnosis alone would drastically change these figures. An unknown
number of persons with a diagnosis of Alzheimer disease in fact may have
CJD, although only a small number of these patients receive the postmortem
examination necessary to make this diagnosis. Furthermore, only a few states
have made CJD reportable. Human and animal transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies should be reportable nationwide and internationally.

Terry S. Singeltary, Sr
Bacliff, Tex



1. Gibbons RV, Holman RC, Belay ED, Schonberger LB. Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease in the United States: 1979-1998. JAMA. 2000;284:2322-2323. FREE FULL
TEXT


http://jama.ama-assn.org/


2 January 2000

British Medical Journal

U.S. Scientist should be concerned with a CJD epidemic in the U.S., as well


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/320/7226/8/b#6117



15 November 1999

British Medical Journal

vCJD in the USA * BSE in U.S.


http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/319/7220/1312/b#5406



3. Prof. A. Robertson gave a brief account of BSE. The US approach
was to accord it a _very low profile indeed_. Dr. A Thiermann showed
the picture in the ''Independent'' with cattle being incinerated and thought
this was a fanatical incident to be _avoided_ in the US _at all costs_ $$$

snip...

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m11b/tab01.pdf



Friday, March 21, 2008
Association between Deposition of Beta-Amyloid and Pathological Prion
Protein in Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Original Paper


http://betaamyloidcjd.blogspot.com/2008/03/association-between-deposition-of-beta.html


Saturday, April 12, 2008
Evidence of scrapie transmission via milk

Research articleS

http://scrapie-usa.blogspot.com/2008/04/evidence-of-scrapie-transmission-via.html


Saturday, April 12, 2008

The sheep industry's scrapie eradication efforts. American Sheep
Nor98-Like Scrapie Found in the United States
SCRAPIE: ERADICATE IT

http://nor-98.blogspot.com/2008/04/sheep-industrys-scrapie-eradication.html



NOR-98 ATYPICAL SCRAPIE USA UPDATE AS AT OCT 2007


typical scrapie transmits to primates by there NON-FORCED ORAL CONSUMPTION ;


76/10.12/4.6


http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1976/10/12004001.pdf


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

EVIDENCE OF SCRAPIE IN SHEEP AS A RESULT OF FOOD BORNE EXPOSURE

This is provided by the statistically significant increase in the incidence
of sheep scrape from 1985, as determined from analyses of the submissions
made to VI Centres, and from individual case and flock incident studies.
........

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1994/02/07002001.pdf


SCRAPIE USA UPDATE MONTHLY REPORT JANUARY 2008


prepared February 20, 2008



Infected and Source Flocks

There were 27 scrapie infected and source flocks with open statuses (Figure
3) as of January 31, 2008. Two new source flocks and one new infected flock
were reported in January (Figure 4) with a total of 22 reported for FY 2008
(Figure 5). ....


snip...


Positive Scrapie Cases

As of January 31, 2008, 58 new scrapie cases have been confirmed and
reported by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) in FY 2008
(Figure 7). Of these, 52 were field cases and 6* were Regulatory Scrapie
Slaughter Surveillance (RSSS) cases (collected in FY 2008 and reported by
February 20, 2008). There were 8 positive cases for January which are
depicted in Figure 8. Seventeen cases of scrapie in goats have been
confirmed by NVSL since implementation of the regulatory changes in FY 2002
(Figure 9). The most recent positive goat cases were from the SAME HERD and
WERE BOTH CONFIRMED IN JANAURY 2008.


snip...


Caprine Scrapie Prevalence Study (CSPS)

CSPS was initiated in May 2007 to estimate the national prevalance of
scrapie in adult goats at slaughter. If no scrapie is found we will be able
to conclude that the prevalence in goats is greater than zero and less than
0.1 percent. AS of January 31, 2008, 2,942 goats have been sampled for
scrapie testing (1,515 in FY 2007 and 1,427 in FY 2008). Collection numbers
by quarter in FY 2008 is shown in Chart 8. To date, no goats have tested
positive for scrapie as part of this surveillance program. HOWEVER, THREE
POSITIVE GOATS have been identified this fiscal year through field
investigations. One was a clinical suspect submitted for testing and THE
OTHER TWO WERE MEMBERS OF THE OF THE BIRTH HERD OF THE CLINICAL CASE.


snip...


please see full text ;


http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/scrapie/downloads/monthly_scrapie_rpt.pps



full text ;


http://nor-98.blogspot.com/


http://scrapie-usa.blogspot.com/


Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy TME

http://transmissible-mink-encephalopathy.blogspot.com/


CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/


February 18, 2004

Preeminent Scientists Protest Bush Administration's Misuse of Science
Nobel Laureates, National Medal of Science Recipients, and Other Leading
Researchers Call for End to Scientific Abuses


Call (2MB mp3)
Washington, D.C.—Today, more than 60 leading scientists—including Nobel
laureates, leading medical experts, former federal agency directors and
university chairs and presidents—issued a statement calling for regulatory
and legislative action to restore scientific integrity to federal
policymaking. According to the scientists, the Bush administration has,
among other abuses, suppressed and distorted scientific analysis from
federal agencies, and taken actions that have undermined the quality of
scientific advisory panels.
“Across a broad range of issues, the administration has undermined the
quality of the scientific advisory system and the morale of the government’s
outstanding scientific personnel,” said Dr. Kurt Gottfried, emeritus
professor of physics at Cornell University and Chairman of the Union of
Concerned Scientists. “Whether the issue is lead paint, clean air or climate
change, this behavior has serious consequences for all Americans.”

“Science, to quote President Bush's father, the former president, relies on
freedom of inquiry and objectivity,” said Russell Train, head of the
Environmental Protection Agency under Nixon and Ford, who joined the
scientists in calling for action. “But this administration has obstructed
that freedom and distorted that objectivity in ways that were unheard of in
any previous administration.”

The statement notes that while scientific input to the government is rarely
the only factor in public policy decisions, this input should be weighed
from an objective and impartial perspective. However, the administration of
George W. Bush has disregarded this principle.

“The Earth system follows laws which scientists strive to understand,” said
Dr. F. Sherwood Rowland a Nobel laureate in chemistry. “The public deserves
rational decisionmaking based on the best scientific advice about what is
likely to happen, not what political entities might wish to happen.”

“We are not simply raising warning flags about an academic subject of
interest only to scientists and doctors,” said Dr. Neal Lane, a former
director of the National Science Foundation and a former Presidential
Science Advisor. “In case after case, scientific input to policymaking is
being censored and distorted. This will have serious consequences for public
health.”

In conjunction with the statement, the Union of Concerned Scientists today
released a report Scientific Integrity in Policymaking that investigates
numerous allegations in the scientists’ statement involving censorship and
political interference with independent scientific inquiry at the
Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, and the
Departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture, Interior and Defense.

One example cited in the statement and report involves the suppression of an
EPA study that found the bipartisan Senate Clear Air bill would do more to
reduce mercury contamination in fish and prevent more deaths than the
administration's proposed Clear Skies Act. “This is akin to the White House
directing the National Weather Service to alter a hurricane forecast because
they want everyone to think we have clear skies ahead,” said Kevin Knobloch,
president of the Union of Concerned Scientists “The hurricane is still
coming, but without factual information no one will be ready for it.”

Comparing President Bush with his father, George H.W. Bush and former
president Richard M. Nixon, the statement warned that had these former
presidents similarly dismissed science in favor of political ends, over
200,000 deaths and millions of respiratory and cardiovascular disease cases
would not have been prevented with the signing of the original Clean Air Act
and the 1990 amendments to that Act.

The statement demands that the Bush administration’s “distortion of
scientific knowledge for partisan political ends must cease” and calls for
Congressional oversight hearings, guaranteed public access to government
scientific studies and other measures to prevent such abuses in the future.
The statement further calls on the scientific, engineering and medical
communities to work together to reestablish scientific integrity in the
policymaking process.

# # #
Among the statement signers are:

Philip W. Anderson*†
David Baltimore*†
Paul Berg*†
Lewis Branscomb
Thomas Eisner*
Jerome Friedman†
Richard Garwin*
Walter Kohn*†
Neal Lane
Leon Lederman*†
Mario Molina†
W.H.K. Panofsky*
F. Sherwood Rowland†
J. Robert Schrieffer*†
Richard Smalley†
Harold E. Varmus†
Steven Weinberg*†
E.O Wilson*

* National Medal of Science
† Nobel laureate


http://www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/preeminent-scientists-protest-bush-administrations-misuse-of-science.html



ALL animals for human/animal consumption must be tested for TSE.

ALL human TSEs must be made reportable Nationally and Internationally,
OF ALL AGES. ...TSS



Terry S. Singeltary Sr.

P.O. Box 42

Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
 

QUESTION

Well-known member
This looks like a repeat of the UK just a few drops of water before the dam breaks and the deluge begins. This saddens the world that people are going to die at a young age needlessly when it COULD have all been prevented. But as long as the US only had 2 freak cases how could this be happening? Oh yeah profits were more important than the consumer. Too bad US cattlemen didn't think of the big picture.
 

feeder

Well-known member
I believe there were many US cattle feeders that got the big picture. When you have governments and packers in bed together rewriting rules for their own benefit, not much can be done.
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
QUESTION said:
This looks like a repeat of the UK just a few drops of water before the dam breaks and the deluge begins. This saddens the world that people are going to die at a young age needlessly when it COULD have all been prevented. But as long as the US only had 2 freak cases how could this be happening? Oh yeah profits were more important than the consumer. Too bad US cattlemen didn't think of the big picture.

Too bad that we aren't getting them all like Canada is.
 

flounder

Well-known member
Sandhusker said:
QUESTION said:
This looks like a repeat of the UK just a few drops of water before the dam breaks and the deluge begins. This saddens the world that people are going to die at a young age needlessly when it COULD have all been prevented. But as long as the US only had 2 freak cases how could this be happening? Oh yeah profits were more important than the consumer. Too bad US cattlemen didn't think of the big picture.

Too bad that we aren't getting them all like Canada is.


again, the usa is doing the oppisite that canada is doing.
canada is looking to find, the usa is looking to hide :nod:
the usa figures, if they can screw up the testing protocols,
the surveillance protocols, they would not find any, and at that,
they could not keep from finding a few :help:


and now, the top prion god at the USA prion unit states ;


Progress Report from the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance
Center April 3, 2008


snip...


Prion surveillance in cattle has been reduced by 90% (from about 470,000 to 40,000 in the U.S. in 2007 out of about 35 million cattle slaughtered).
Termination of human prion surveillance would therefore remove the second line of surveillance, thereby eliminating prion surveillance in the U.S. entirely. This development would be extremely worrisome in view of recent reports that precautions to limit the spread of the prion infectious agent may not have been followed in some slaughter houses in the U.S.
Cattle affected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) continue to be discovered in Canada, which has more rigorous BSE surveillance than the U.S. At the same time, Canada imposes few limitations in the trade of potentially prion-infectious cattle with the U.S.

snip...

Atypical forms of BSE have emerged which, although rare, appear to be more virulent than the classical BSE that causes vCJD.


Sincerely,
Pierluigi Gambetti, MD
Director, National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center

Stephen M. Sergay, MB, BCh
President, American Academy of Neurology


http://www.aan.com/news/?event=read&article_id=4397&page=72.45.45


please see full text with additional comments and links @ ;


http://prionunitusaupdate2008.blogspot.com/


AND NOW, 2008, 3 SUSPECT NVCJD CASES all in there 20's ???


YOUR only kidding yourself there sandy with statements like this ;


Sandhusker said:
[Too bad that we aren't getting them all like Canada is.



Audit Report

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Surveillance Program - Phase II

and

Food Safety and Inspection Service

Controls Over BSE Sampling, Specified Risk Materials, and Advanced Meat
Recovery Products - Phase III

Report No. 50601-10-KC January 2006

Finding 2 Inherent Challenges in Identifying and Testing High-Risk Cattle
Still Remain

Our prior report identified a number of inherent problems in identifying and
testing high-risk cattle. We reported that the challenges in identifying the
universe of high-risk cattle, as well as the need to design procedures to
obtain an appropriate representation of samples, was critical to the success
of the BSE surveillance program. The surveillance program was designed to
target nonambulatory cattle, cattle showing signs of CNS disease (including
cattle testing negative for rabies), cattle showing signs not inconsistent
with BSE, and dead cattle. Although APHIS designed procedures to ensure FSIS
condemned cattle were sampled and made a concerted effort for outreach to
obtain targeted samples, industry practices not considered in the design of
the surveillance program reduced assurance that targeted animals were tested
for BSE.




USDA/OIG-A/50601-10-KC Page 27

observe these animals ante mortem when possible to assure the animals from
the target population are ultimately sampled and the clinical signs
evaluated.



snip...



http://www.usda.gov/oig/webdocs/50601-10-KC.pdf



GAO-05-51 October 2004 FOOD SAFETY

over 500 customers receiving potentially BSE contaminated beef .....

* GAO-05-51 October 2004 FOOD SAFETY (over 500 customers receiving
potentially BSE contaminated beef) - TSS 10/20/04

October 2004 FOOD SAFETY
USDA and FDA Need
to Better Ensure
Prompt and Complete
Recalls of Potentially
Unsafe Food

snip...

REPORTS

1. Food Safety: USDA and FDA Need to Better Ensure Prompt and Complete
Recalls of Potentially Unsafe Food. GAO-05-51, October 7.tss


http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0551.pdf


Highlights -

http://www.gao.gov/highlights/d0551high.pdf



3. Mad Cow Disease: FDA's Management of the Feed Ban Has Improved,
but Oversight Weaknesses Continue to Limit Program Effectiveness.
GAO-05-101, Feb. 25.

www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-05-101

Highlights -

www.gao.gov/highlights/d05101high.pdf



SADLY, DEC 2005 SHOWS THAT WE STILL HAVE A SERIOUS PROBLEM WITH BSE/TSE MAD
COW DISEASE FEED


GAO


GAO-06-157R FDA Feed Testing Program

October 11, 2005


SNIP...FULL TEXT 29 PAGES ;


http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d06157r.pdf


Mad Cow Disease: An Evaluation of a Small Feed Testing Program FDA
Implemented in 2003 With Recommendations for Making the Program a Better
Oversight Tool. GAO-06-157R, October 11

http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-157R



GAO REPORT ON HUMANE METHODS OF HANDLING AND SLAUGHTER I.E. DOWNER COW SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM

What GAO Found

April 17, 2008

HUMANE METHODS OF HANDLING AND SLAUGHTER

Public Reporting on Violations Can Identify Enforcement Challenges and Enhance Transparency

In January 2004, GAO reported that incomplete and inconsistent inspection records made it difficult to determine the frequency and scope of HMSA violations, inspectors did not always document violations of the act, and they did not consistently document the scope and severity of each incident. GAO also reported that enforcement actions to address noncompliance with the act were inconsistent, and that USDA was not using consistent criteria to determine when to suspend plant operations in cases of serious or repeated violations. The Congress has urged USDA to report annually on trends in compliance with humane slaughter methods. Such public reporting can enhance transparency, but USDA’s most recent report was in March 2003 and relied on incomplete data. For example, that report said very few infractions were for inhumane treatment, but GAO found that at least one-fourth of the infractions were for ineffective stunning which fails to meet humane standards. USDA has taken actions to address the recommendations GAO made in 2004 about oversight of HMSA. However, GAO has not evaluated the effectiveness of these actions. USDA faces resource challenges that may make it difficult for it to enforce HMSA and ensure the safety of the food supply. Although USDA’s budget for food safety-related activities has increased since 1988, staffing for these activities has declined from its highest level in 1995. Agency officials noted the overall decline is due, in part, to consolidation in the meat industry, resulting in fewer facilities. In 2004, GAO found that USDA lacked detailed information on how much time its inspectors spend on humane handling and slaughter activities, making it difficult to determine if the number of inspectors is adequate. USDA has taken actions to address most of GAO’s recommendationsfor assessing its resource needs for HMSA, but GAO has not evaluated these actions. Although not directly related to HMSA activities, the quantity of meat and poultry inspected and passed by USDA has grown, and the quantity of meat and poultry recalled has increased. USDA has oversight responsibility for ensuring the safety of meat, poultry, and processed eggs. For example, federal regulations prohibit companies from processing and selling meat from disabled cows—which have a higher probability of being infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy—without explicit USDA inspector approval. However, USDA is only 1 of 15 agencies that collectively administer at least 30 laws related to food safety. This fragmentation is the key reason GAO added the federal oversight of food safety to its High-Risk Series in 2007 and called for a governmentwide reexamination of the food safety system. GAO has reported on problems with this system—including inconsistent oversight, ineffective coordination, and inefficient use of resources. Going forward, as GAO has recommended, a governmentwide, results-oriented performance plan and a reconvened President’s Council on Food Safety could build a sustained focus on the safety of the nation’s food supply.

Note: Data for 2008 are estimated. Although the number of recalls has declined in recent years, the quantity of meat and poultry recalled has increased sharply. Meat and poultry product recalls declined from 125 in 2002 to 58 in 2007. However, 2 of the 6 biggest meat recalls in U.S. history have occurred in the past 6 months. In October 2007, Topps Meat Company LLC announced the recall of 22 million pounds of ground beef used for frozen hamburgers due to E. coli contamination. At the time, the Topps recall was the fifth largest in U.S. history. The E. coli-contaminated meat sickened at least 32 people in eight states. On February 17, 2008, Westland/Hallmark Meat Company announced the recall of more than 143 million pounds of beef, the largest recall in U.S. history. The quantity of meat and poultry recalled has increased from 5 million pounds in 1994, the first year for which data were readily available, to 145 million in just the first quarter of March 2008.

see full text 18 pages ;

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08686t.pdf

this is just another one of the federal gov. broken records they play from time to time. the GAO AND OIG is helpless in oversight of USDA et al. AS you can see from the reports over the past 8 years. same BSe over and over again, and i see no hope with this problem with the new administration coming in, regardless who wins. BIG AG has a stranglehold on the white house. ...TSS

MAD COW DISEASE terminology UK c-BSE (typical), atypical BSE H or L, and or Italian L-BASE

http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2008/03/mad-cow-disease-terminology-uk-c-bse.html

SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM FROM DOWNER CATTLE UPDATE

http://downercattle.blogspot.com/

SRM MAD COW RECALL 406 THOUSAND POUNDS CATTLE HEADS WITH TONSILS KANSAS

http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/2008/04/srm-mad-cow-recall-406-thousand-pounds.html

SPECIFIED RISK MATERIALS

http://madcowspontaneousnot.blogspot.com/2008/02/specified-risk-materials-srm.html

TSS
 

Bill

Well-known member
Sandhusker said:
QUESTION said:
This looks like a repeat of the UK just a few drops of water before the dam breaks and the deluge begins. This saddens the world that people are going to die at a young age needlessly when it COULD have all been prevented. But as long as the US only had 2 freak cases how could this be happening? Oh yeah profits were more important than the consumer. Too bad US cattlemen didn't think of the big picture.

Too bad that we aren't getting them all like Canada is.

Canada's system might not be perfect Sadhusker but it's a heck of a lot better than y'alls!

You couldn't even honestly report the ones you did find!
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
Bill said:
Sandhusker said:
QUESTION said:
This looks like a repeat of the UK just a few drops of water before the dam breaks and the deluge begins. This saddens the world that people are going to die at a young age needlessly when it COULD have all been prevented. But as long as the US only had 2 freak cases how could this be happening? Oh yeah profits were more important than the consumer. Too bad US cattlemen didn't think of the big picture.

Too bad that we aren't getting them all like Canada is.

Canada's system might not be perfect Sadhusker but it's a heck of a lot better than y'alls!

You couldn't even honestly report the ones you did find!

I guess that excuses your government's BSing, eh?
 

gcreekrch

Well-known member
Sandhusker said:
Bill said:
Sandhusker said:
Too bad that we aren't getting them all like Canada is.

Canada's system might not be perfect Sadhusker but it's a heck of a lot better than y'alls!

You couldn't even honestly report the ones you did find!

I guess that excuses your government's BSing, eh?

There is no excuse for ANYONE to BS this issue. Including to yourself, eh
 

Sandhusker

Well-known member
gcreekrch said:
Sandhusker said:
Bill said:
Canada's system might not be perfect Sadhusker but it's a heck of a lot better than y'alls!

You couldn't even honestly report the ones you did find!

I guess that excuses your government's BSing, eh?

There is no excuse for ANYONE to BS this issue. Including to yourself, eh

I'm not BSing anybody. I'm just not going to take jabs from hypocrites.
 

PORKER

Well-known member
The need of tracking NVCJD cases in a database will get the ball rolling on BSE testing . Those that were in public office during these surveillance programs will be remembered forever !
 

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