BSE CASE CONFIRMED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA OTTAWA

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BSE CASE CONFIRMED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA OTTAWA, June 23, 2008 - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a cow in the Province of British Columbia. This case poses no risk to human or animal health since Canada's stringent BSE safeguards prevented any part of the animal's carcass from entering the human food chain or any potentially infective parts of the animal's carcass from entering the animal feed chain.

The animal was detected through Canada's national BSE surveillance program. The CFIA has launched a comprehensive investigation in an effort to determine the birth farm of the animal.

Canada's enhanced feed ban, introduced last summer, virtually eliminates the potential spread of BSE through the animal feed chain and places Canada on an accelerated path to eliminate BSE. As the level of BSE continues to decline, the periodic detection of a small number of cases is fully expected in line with the experience of other countries. Concurrently, Canada's food safety system maintains the highest levels of human health protection.

The national surveillance program, which targets the highest risk animals, has tested more than 220,000 cattle since 2003. The program continues to benefit from very strong producer participation.

The detection of this animal does not affect Canada's status as a BSE controlled risk country as recognized by the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE).

As has been done with previous cases, the CFIA will update information as it becomes available through the ongoing investigation.

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For information:

Canadian Food Inspection Agency Media relations: 613-228-6682

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/bseesb/bccb2008/13notavie.shtml

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

OIE Recognition of the BSE Status of Members RESOLUTION No. XXI (Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 27 May 2008)

snip...SEE FULL TEXT with facts and sources @ ;

http://usdavskorea.blogspot.com/2008/06/oie-recognition-of-bse-status-of.html

http://organicconsumers.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1566

Friday, April 25, 2008

Substances Prohibited From Use in Animal Food or Feed [Docket No. 2002N-0273] (Formerly Docket No. 02N-0273) RIN 0910-AF46

http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2008/04/substances-prohibited-from-use-in.html

Review on the epidemiology and dynamics of BSE epidemics

Cases of atypical BSE have only been found in countries having implemented large active surveillance programs. As of 1st September 2007, 36 cases (16 H, 20 L) have been described all over the world in cattle: Belgium (1 L) [23], Canada (1 H)15, Denmark (1 L)16, France (8 H, 6 L)17, Germany (1 H, 1 L) [13], Italy (3 L)18, Japan (1 L) [71], Netherlands (1 H, 2 L)19, Poland (1 H, 6 L)20, Sweden (1 H)21, United Kingdom (1 H)22, and USA (2 H)23. Another H-type case has been found in a 19 year old miniature zebu in a zoological park in Switzerland [56]. It is noteworthy that atypical cases have been found in countries that did not experience classical BSE so far, like Sweden, or in which only few cases of classical BSE have been found, like Canada or the USA.

And last but not least, similarities of PrPres between Htype BSE and human prion diseases like CJD or GSS have been put forward [10], as well as between L-type BSE and CJD [17]. These findings raise questions about the origin and inter species transmission of these prion diseases that were discovered through the BSE active surveillance.

full text 18 pages ;

http://www.vetres.org/index.php?option=article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/vetres/pdf/2008/04/v07232.pdf

USA BSE ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE ???

http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2008/06/review-on-epidemiology-and-dynamics-of.html

Please remember, the last two mad cows documented in the USA i.e. Alabama and Texas, both were of the 'atypical' BSE strain, and immediately after that, the USDA shut down the testing from 470,000 to 40,000 in the U.S. in 2007 out of about 35 million cattle slaughtered. also, science is showing that some of these atypical cases are more virulent to humans than the typical UK BSE strain ;

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

Progress Report from the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center

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

April 3, 2008

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

In this context, a word is in order about the US testing program. After the discovery of the first (imported) cow in 2003, the magnitude of testing was much increased, reaching a level of >400,000 tests in 2005 (Figure 4). Neither of the 2 more recently indigenously infected older animals with nonspecific clinical features would have been detected without such testing, and neither would have been identified as atypical without confirmatory Western blots. Despite these facts, surveillance has now been decimated to 40,000 annual tests (USDA news release no. 0255.06, July 20, 2006) and invites the accusation that the United States will never know the true status of its involvement with BSE.

In short, a great deal of further work will need to be done before the phenotypic features and prevalence of atypical BSE are understood. More than a single strain may have been present from the beginning of the epidemic, but this possibility has been overlooked by virtue of the absence of widespread Western blot confirmatory testing of positive screening test results; or these new phenotypes may be found, at least in part, to result from infections at an older age by a typical BSE agent, rather than neonatal infections with new "strains" of BSE. Neither alternative has yet been investigated.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no12/06-0965.htm

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

SCRAPIE USA UPDATE JUNE 2008 NOR-98 REPORTED PA

http://nor-98.blogspot.com/2008/06/scrapie-usa-update-june-2008-nor-98.html

Terry S. Singeltary Sr. P.O. Box 42 Bacliff, Texas USA 77518

 

[Kathy]

Timing is everything.

don't let this new BSE case SCARE you into buying into the Alberta government's take-over plan of the Alberta cattle business.

Look at future's prices! Flooding and high grain prices are pushing cattle prices up and up.... If you have the grass to put the weight on them, for a short finish on grain, i... you will see the benefits of sticking it out in the business for the last 5 years.

The Alberta push to take control of the Livestock and Meat industry is aimed at making slaves out of the remaining producers. The Premise ID concept came from the Federal government, so I'm told. The bureacrats are going to make it more costly to raise our cattle, and being a cow-calf producer you have nobody to pass those increases onto.

Tell me where they found this case, and I will show you a link to uranium or other toxic heavy metals.....

Kootney Valley perhaps?

 

[DaleK]

I'm more curious to know when British Columbia moved to Ottawa

 

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Deaths may be linked to mad cow

Canwest News Service

Federal medical authorities will determine only "in coming months" whether two recent deaths in the Saguenay region attributed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can be pinned to the rare variant linked with mad-cow disease, a geneticist with the Canadian Public Health Agency said Thursday.

A man in his 60s, died around Christmas, and a woman in her 50s died Feb. 11.

Brain-autopsy results aren't likely to be available for either victim before May or June, said Michael Coulthart, director of the health agency's division of host genetics and prion diseases.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, known as CJD, has killed a total of 359 Canadians since 1994.

One of those deaths, in 2002, was from the mad-cow variant, known as vCJD, the public health agency says. That victim was a Canadian resident who had lived in the United Kingdom for several years.

There has never been any death from mad-cow disease among lifetime residents of Canada.

Mad cow is a progressive, fatal disease of the nervous system of cattle. It is believed to be transmissible to humans who eat infected beef products.

No definitive diagnosis of any form of CJD can be made except by examination of human brain tissue following death, said Coulthart, so he can't definitively rule out mad cow in the two Saguenay deaths until those autopsy results become available.

Coulthart wouldn't confirm any details of the two Saguenay cases, which had been reported by local media.

Worldwide, 202 human mad-cow deaths had been registered as of April 3, according to the health agency's website.

"If the disease comes from exposure to infected beef products prior to the ban on specified offal in human food in 1989, as is now widely accepted, then there could be more cases if the incubation period is very long," the agency said.

"However, it is currently impossible to predict how many more cases of CJD there will be," the website added.

Officials at the hospital in Chicoutimi would not answer questions on the two deaths until Friday, said a hospital official responsible for communications.

A Canadian cow is pictured in a field near Teulon, Manitoba. Federal medical authorities will determine whether two recent deaths in the Saguenay region can be pinned to the rare variant linked with mad cow disease. Photograph by : REUTERS/Shaun Best/Files

http://www.canada.com/globaltv/national/health/story.html?id=e1879bdd-9784-49f9-a1a1-f3f8d4d85d02

Monday, June 23, 2008

BSE CASE CONFIRMED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA OTTAWA Monday, June 23, 2008 2:20 PM

http://docket-aphis-2006-0041.blogspot.com/2008/06/bse-case-confirmed-in-british-columbia.html

http://organicconsumers.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1625

Portsmouth woman did not die of mad cow-related condition, USDA says UPDATE Updated Jun.17, 2008 08:34 KST

U.K. BSE nvCJD ONLY theory invoked again. it's like still believing the world is flat for pete's sake i.e. the one strain, one country, one age group, one species, one route, only theory. it's pure BSe, and the stench is horrendous. it's the smell of death, for profit only.

THE UKBSEnvCJD _only_ theory is incorrect. there are more strains of mad cow than the UK BSE in beef to nvCJD in humans in the UK. The deception by the USDA, FDA, and the Bush administration about mad cow disease, CJD, and all Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy over the past 8 years have been outrageous, to a point of being criminal. I am vested in nothing, but the truth.

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Please remember, the last two mad cows documented in the USA i.e. Alabama and Texas, both were of the 'atypical' BSE strain, and immediately after that, the USDA shut down the testing from 470,000 to 40,000 in the U.S. in 2007 out of about 35 million cattle slaughtered. also, science is showing that some of these atypical cases are more virulent to humans than the typical UK BSE strain ;

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

Progress Report from the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center

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

April 3, 2008

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

In this context, a word is in order about the US testing program. After the discovery of the first (imported) cow in 2003, the magnitude of testing was much increased, reaching a level of >400,000 tests in 2005 (Figure 4). Neither of the 2 more recently indigenously infected older animals with nonspecific clinical features would have been detected without such testing, and neither would have been identified as atypical without confirmatory Western blots. Despite these facts, surveillance has now been decimated to 40,000 annual tests (USDA news release no. 0255.06, July 20, 2006) and invites the accusation that the United States will never know the true status of its involvement with BSE.

In short, a great deal of further work will need to be done before the phenotypic features and prevalence of atypical BSE are understood. More than a single strain may have been present from the beginning of the epidemic, but this possibility has been overlooked by virtue of the absence of widespread Western blot confirmatory testing of positive screening test results; or these new phenotypes may be found, at least in part, to result from infections at an older age by a typical BSE agent, rather than neonatal infections with new "strains" of BSE. Neither alternative has yet been investigated.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol12no12/06-0965.htm

IF BSE is not in the USA (just not documented for many different reasons), and only atypical BSE is in the USA (plus CWD, plus, many strains of Scrapie, and Now the Nor-98 documented in 5 different states, plus TME, then why would human mad cow in the USA look like the UK nvCJD from UK BSE cows ? it was shown long ago in studies at Mission Texas that experimental transmission of USA Scrapie to USA Bovine, DID NOT LOOK LIKE UK BSE. so again, in short, why would human mad cow in the USA look like human mad cow in the UK i.e. the (nvCJD). however, I believe that BSE has been in the USA untested and undocumented for years. why on earth then does the USDA refuse to allow creekstone or anyone else test their product? simple, if you don't look/test, you don't find.

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He added that because the CDC only provide information on diseases, they have no plans

to make a separate press release on the issue including the result of the investigation.

and that is the way they plan to keep it, all spontaneous, sporadic, no route, no source $$$

USDA, CDC, NIH, ET AL INVOKE THE UKBSEnvCJD ONLY RULE $$$

Virginia Woman Did not Die of vCJD

Updated Jun.17,2008 08:34 KST

The MBC news program "PD Diary" reported that Aretha Vinson died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) in early April when in an interview, Vinson's mother actually said, "The results had come in from the MRI and it appeared that our daughter could possibly have CJD," not vCJD.

please see full text ;

http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/2008/06/portsmouth-woman-did-not-die-of-mad-cow.html

A novel human disease with abnormal prion protein sensitive to protease (prionopathy)

http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/2008/06/novel-human-disease-with-abnormal-prion.html

HUMAN and ANIMAL TSE Classifications i.e. mad cow disease and the UKBSEnvCJD only theory JUNE 2008

http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/2008/06/human-and-animal-tse-classifications-ie.html

PLEASE NOTE, typical and atypical BSE have been _documented_ in North America, along with typical and atypical Scrapie, and CWD in deer and Elk, along with TME in mink. what CJD from any of these source would look like, if transmitted to humans, either by consumption, or 2nd, 3rd, 4th passage etc by any friendly fire, what this would look like in humans is anyones guess, but could include sporadic CJDs. ...TSS

 

[Kathy]

The BSE vCJD connection is just a coverup for environmental contamination with biologically toxic metals:

Rio Tinto Alcan to study expansion of Saguenay, Que. metals plant
Thu May 29, 7:33 PM 2008
Ross Marowits, The Canadian Press


MONTREAL - Rio Tinto Alcan (LSE: RIO.L) is studying a plan to expand a second plant in Saguenay, Que., by enlarging its proposed new-technology aluminum metals smelter at a cost of up to US$2.5 billion.

The company said late Thursday it will speed up a pre-feasibility study to consider increasing the capacity of its AP50 pilot smelter by another 140,000 tonnes - an expansion that could cost between US$2 billion to US$2.5 billion.

The move comes less than two months after Rio Tinto PLC CEO Tom Albanese said his company was advancing by a couple of years a preliminary study on expanding the Alcan Alma smelter in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec.

The potential expansion would add 170,000 tonnes to the smelter's current annual production of 400,000 tonnes.

Preparatory work on the new AP50 pilot plant has already begun, the company said. The study would also consider a possible subsequent expansion of up to 400,000 tonnes at the plant, which is powered exclusively by hydroelectricity.

The first phase of the AP50 pilot plant will have 44 aluminum smelting pots and an initial production of 60,000 tonnes of metal a year, the company said.

Light-weight aluminum is widely used in the automotive, aerospace, packaging and other industries. Quebec is one of the world's lowest-cost aluminum production area because of its large supplies of comparatively cheap hydro power.

"The AP50 pilot plant along with the proposed US$1-billion Alma, Que. expansion and the US$2.5-billion modernization project in Kitimat, British Columbia, represent significant investments in Quebec and Canada," said Dick Evans, chief executive of Rio Tinto Alcan.

"They underline Rio Tinto Alcan's position as a leader in aluminium production and as the partner of choice in aluminium smelting technologies.

"In addition to consolidating Quebec's position as a major global aluminium hub, the overall investment program of up to US$6 billion in Canada will further strengthen Rio Tinto Alcan's suite of modern, low-cost aluminium smelters during a period of continuing strong global demand."

Company spokesman Stefano Bertolli said the robustness of the mining sector have made the timing of these expansions possible.

"The market conditions and technology allow us to go forward with that now," he said in an interview.

London-based Rio Tinto is one of the world's largest miners, combining Rio Tinto plc, a London and New York Stock Exchange-listed company, and Rio Tinto Ltd., which trades on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Rio Tinto's businesses produce aluminium, copper, diamonds, coal and uranium, gold, industrial minerals and iron ore. The company operates around the world, but has a major presence in Canada, the United States and Australia, with significant businesses in South America, Asia, Europe and southern Africa.

Last year, the global company completed its US$38-billion acquisition of the former Alcan Inc.


Northwestern signs letter of intent for second uranium project in Quebec, Canada

TORONTO, June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Northwestern Mineral VenturesInc. has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire 100% interest in a highly prospective uranium property in south-central Quebec from a private owner. The acquisition area is known as the Saguenay Uranium Property and represents more than 100 claims with a land area of approximately 4,000 acres (1,600 hectares).
"Northwestern is solidifying its position in one of the world's most
mining-friendly jurisdictions by expanding our uranium holdings in Quebec.
Quebec is well known for its rich mineral resources and for the
government's commitment to assist in the development of those resources," said Marek Kreczmer, President and CEO of Northwestern. "A report based on work conducted on the property in the late 1960s by a number of companies, including Opemisca Explorers Limited, indicated the potential for a large tonnage, open-pit uranium operation."
The western Grenville region, which includes the Saguenay area where
the property is located, was the focus of uranium mineral exploration and
metallogenic studies between 1955 and 1980. Uranium mineralization in the area consists of uraniferous minerals disseminated in the pegmatite and locally in surrounding country rocks. Grades can reach as high as several thousand parts per million U3O8 (uranium oxide).
The Saguenay Uranium Property is located near the mouth of the Saguenay River close to the north shore of the St. Lawrence River, approximately 120 miles (190 kilometers) east of Quebec City. Access to the property is by regional roads, which connect to major provincial highways.
Under the terms of the Letter of Intent, Northwestern will pay
C$545,000 in cash installments, including C$45,000 in the due diligence
period, and will issue 2,000,000 shares over a three-year period to earn
100% ownership of the project. Shares will be subject to all required
regulatory hold periods. In addition, should a bankable feasibility study
be completed on the property, Northwestern has agreed to pay an additional C$500,000. The private owner will retain a 2% net smelter royalty (NSR) onthe property. Northwestern has the right to purchase one-half of the NSR
for C$1,000,000 following the completion of a bankable feasibility study.
The Letter of Intent is subject to regulatory approval, due diligence
and environmental assessment. Other terms of the agreement were not
released.

 

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The BSE vCJD connection is just a coverup for environmental contamination with biologically toxic metals:
snipped trash out....

dream on kathy. your ploy to stray from the truth and the industries responsible will not work. transmission studies do not lie. ...tss

 

[Mike]

The BSE vCJD connection is just a coverup for environmental contamination with biologically toxic metals:
snipped trash out....

dream on kathy. your ploy to stray from the truth and the industries responsible will not work. transmission studies do not lie. ...tss

Why would you care if Kathy is right?

After all, isn't it your sole goal to prevent the masses from getting CJD? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Looks like you would be open to all hypothesis', no matter how different.

You're allowing your hand to show. Your true intentions are to take everyone down the veggie lane and to destroy a way of life and an industry, isn't it?

Go back to school!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[QUESTION]

This again !!! What is really needed is international standards for feed bans, testing, surveilence and co-operation to eliminate this scourge to the beef industry. NOT pointing fingers and who is better than anyone else. Will it happen sadly not likely. So because some don't want to take BSE seriousely all beef producers will suffer. Unless your country has never found one. And if Kathys argument was true that is nearly impossible.

 

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INVESTIGATION CONFIRMS AGE OF BSE CASE


OTTAWA, June 27, 2008 - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed that the case of BSE announced on June 23, 2008, was a five-year-old Holstein cow from British Columbia. As previously noted, no part of the animal's carcass entered the human food supply and no risk materials entered the animal feed system.

The animal's age is consistent with previous Canadian cases, which range from 50 months to 192 months of age. It also indicates that this animal was exposed to a very low amount of infective material, probably during its first year of life. As the level of BSE continues to decline, the periodic detection of a small number of cases is fully expected and in line with the experiences of other countries.

The CFIA continues to investigate and gather additional information about the animal's background, including tracing the animal's herdmates at birth, as defined by international BSE response guidelines. The CFIA will also undertake a comprehensive feed investigation to examine how this animal became infected.

Canada is a Controlled Risk country for BSE, as recognized by the World Organization for Animal Health, and the detection of this animal does not affect Canada's status. This status demonstrates the effectiveness of our surveillance, health protection and eradication efforts, and is not based on the number of BSE cases detected.

Canada's rigorous BSE safeguards provide the highest levels of human and animal health protection as the disease is gradually eliminated from the national cattle herd.

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For information:

Canadian Food Inspection Agency Media relations: 613-228-6682

http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/anima/heasan/disemala/bseesb/bccb2008/13notavibe.shtml

Monday, June 23, 2008

BSE CASE CONFIRMED IN BRITISH COLUMBIA OTTAWA Monday, June 23, 2008 2:20 PM

http://docket-aphis-2006-0041.blogspot.com/2008/06/bse-case-confirmed-in-british-columbia.html

http://organicconsumers.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=1625

TSS

 

[Kathy]

Clusters relate more to their "environment" than to a [processed] feed source. Feed would see wider distribution than a small area of Alberta or BC... just as the UK feed was shipped around the world... yet the BSE epidemics did not occur in all the places which received the MBM.

Dairy cows are more susceptible because of their high calcium output. They are then feed minerals with high calcium and phosphourous; the phosphorous is associated with uranium (like peas in a pod - where one goes so does the other). Also contributing, is the water quality? What metals are in it? Very low levels of uranium and cadmium can mimic estrogen....

A high milker will pull the calcium from their bones and this can release other toxic metals locked up in the bones.

For the blood brain barrier to be crossed the likelihood of the animals exposure being from feed is very very low... (for prion based hypothesis)... but more likely for a metal-based hypothesis.

Copper is integral in the electron transfer communications of the mitochondria. If there is a shortage of copper supply to this cellular mechanism... your screwed.

Now that we have another positive animal... can the tissues please be examined for these metal contaminates. I'd start by looking at the Peyer's patches for a buildup of uranium.... All this testing is possible now. The science can determine the metals involved... so where the heck are the analysis of these positive animal tissues - for METALS.