Earlier Reader posted a message "NIH finds clue to what makes prions kill".  A portion of the news article states:

This article co-incides with an email alert by "Nature Reviews Drug Discovery" about those fatty velcro-like bonds, called glycolipid anchors (which anchor proteins to cell membranes) are the topic of this medical news alert, below.  All be it, they are talking about cancer and inflammation: (please read my comment below the article)

This Nature Review alert was sponsored by "Bio-Rad" the makers of a popular BSE test kit.  I believe the same one used in the USA.

Here is some exerpts about Biorad from one of their news releases.

The point I wish to make here, is that this company owned by the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) are the manufactures of products/tests designed for food safety surveillance, including, but not limited to, BSE and CWD.

I think most people can answer this question for themselves, "why would the French Atomic Energy Commission be worried about developing tests for food safety?".

With all of the nuclear waste floating about in the atmosphere and polluting our environment, don't you think it is having an effect on all of us?