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Research Not A Waste Of Money

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Research Not A Waste Of Money

A breakthrough by a research team at the University of Texas Medical Branch could illuminate one of medicine’s darkest secrets by exposing how many people could unknowingly be infected with the human form of mad cow disease. One reader said the test was a waste of money.

In regard to Leigh Forde’s letter (The Daily News, July 10):

Study On Mad Cow Disease Doesn’t Deserve Praise

A breakthrough by a research team at the University of Texas Medical Branch could illuminate one of medicine’s darkest secrets by exposing how many people could unknowingly be infected with the human form of mad cow disease.

The University of Texas Medical Branch is wasting taxpayer money developing its prion test.

Less then 150 people have died of mad cow disease in the last decade. That’s less than 15 people per year.

Our health care system fails to spend its money to benefit the largest number of people.

Leigh Forde Seattle, Wash.


http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=f4c7bd9585ac1eaf



I disagree whole-heartedly.

My mother died right here, and UTMB autopsied her along with Case Western Reserve University and confirmed an exceedingly rare strain of sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, i.e., the Heidenhain Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.

As we speak this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put out a new study about a new strain of atypical Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy in the bovine called Bovine Amyloidotic Spongiform Encephalopathy that is not similar to the New Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease United Kingdom strain in humans, but is very similar to the sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease.

The last two documented mad cow cases in Alabama and Texas are Atypical Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy.

Sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in the United States has tripled in recent years, with unknown strains being documented.

Scrapie in sheep and goats, and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk are running rampant in the United States, with three new cases of chronic wasting disease right at our doorsteps, documented in New Mexico last month.

Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease being misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s disease is another important factor.

Also, this agent has and will wreak havoc in the long term.

So, again, I disagree, and in fact, I think the money allocated is only a drop in the bucket to a disease that is incubating in a great many of us due to the fact that most of us have already been exposed in one way or the other, and the fact the disease can incubate up to 50-plus years.

Terry S. Singeltary Sr. Bacliff


http://news.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=d9a961304ae8c6e6



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mrj

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And never mind the toll taken by various cancers, and the 50,0000+/- who die in car accidents each year.......just throw all the money at every junk scientist with a pet theory re. TSE's who will challenge the internationally accepted scientists' work and accuse them and government agencies of covering up evidence.

MRJ
 

mrj

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reader (the Second) said:
MRJ said:
And never mind the toll taken by various cancers, and the 50,0000+/- who die in car accidents each year.......just throw all the money at every junk scientist with a pet theory re. TSE's who will challenge the internationally accepted scientists' work and accuse them and government agencies of covering up evidence.

MRJ

Huh? You are in the gin again I see. There are scores of experts on TSE, all of whom agree that this is a dangerous disease, and their science is accepted. These are the internationally accepted scientists.

Or did you think that paid parrots are internationally accepted scientists?

I think you are STILL deluding yourself.

Are you saying that the Governments of the world who are putting into place feed bans against ruminant to ruminant feed and who are putting in place policy for and funding for BSE surveillance and TSE research are all "junk science" based? U.S. EU UK Japan. All the Western European countries? Canada? Australia? Korea? Huh?

"Scientists" whose livelihood is derived by being front men for large manufacturers or industry associations may be earning their living but they are not doing basic science my dear.

Now, the NIH and even USDA funded TSE research -- which you appear to ignore -- is science.


Maybe if I were "into the gin" comparable with the rest of you who occasionally comment on your favorite booze I would be on your wave length. Guess I will miss out on that 'enlightenment', not enjoying alcohol all that much or often.

Do you really believe efforts to find the source of TSE's/ BSE and to be CERTAIN of possible connections to human illnesses have been dominant, or has fearmongering and fingerpointing?

As in many other illnesses and conditions affecting health, the 'buzz' gets the attention and money, while the realtime, here and now killers get short shrift.

I have and do support the efforts of internationally accepted sound science. Do you deny that there have been some pretty far out claims of far from 'sound' science on this site? Why don't you accept that scientists can have differences? No one has said TSE/BSE is not at least a potentially dangerous problem.

FACT; NCBA, including Gary Weber, pushed for feed bans, and international scientific effort to investigate and solve the BSE problem many long years ago, actually being in the lead and pushing USDA on efforts to study, contain, control, and find answers to BSE, while others were saying all we needed to do was close our borders to cattle and beef.

Those of you who have tragic personal experiences which you believe are related to BSE may not be the best of judges and interpreters to determine what is "junk" and what is valid science, IMO.

MRJ
 

Jason

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The real point is not how dangerous TSE's are, if you catch one you die. Point taken.

However what is the risk of catching one?

No one knows anyone who has got this from beef. We have 2 tragic cases on ranchers but stemming from medical procedures.

Meanwhile everyone here knows someone who has died from Cancer, Heart disease, car accidents etc. To focus solely on TSE's is missing the rest of your life.
 

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