The truth comes out

[mrj]

You are correct that it is humans whose practices caused vCJD to emerge as a new and terrible disease. The UK still hasn't faced the threat appropriately as this article states. This poor young man should have been told that he might have vCJD due to the massive blood transfusions he received.

Didn't it really start with cannibals who ate the brains of both their friends and enemies in the belief that practice would give them the powers of both?

How that 'morphed' into something involving the disease Scabies in sheep, supposedly being carried to cattle when sheep (and cattle) remains were cooked and dehydrated and ground into meal to provide minerals unavailable to cattle on an island (Great Brittain) just isn't crystal clear, is it?

But some do find it fun to claim/imply that those evil packers just grind up the carcasses and remains of processed cattle and feed the meal, still dripping blood, back to other cattle in order to make more money, it seems.

How many centuries has it been a practice to gain those minerals by processing and grinding bones from cattle and other animals, then feeding those minerals to animals, and even to people, yet we only find the BSE problem coming to light late in the 20th Century?

MRJ

 

[TimH]

R2 wrote-

"....all contributed to BSE and vCJD moving from a small scale outbreak to an epidemic now affecting countries around the globe as evidenced by Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia, France, Portugal, The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, the U.S. etc."

EPIDEMIC???
Just how many cases per/million head of cattle does it take to make an "epidemic" in your world R2???
Are you saying that the 2 confirmed cases in the USA's herd of 95 million cattle is an EPIDEMIC??? :???:

 

[Anonymous]

R2 wrote-

"....all contributed to BSE and vCJD moving from a small scale outbreak to an epidemic now affecting countries around the globe as evidenced by Canada, Japan, Saudi Arabia, France, Portugal, The Netherlands, Spain, Germany, France, Ireland, Italy, the U.S. etc."

EPIDEMIC???
Just how many cases per/million head of cattle does it take to make an "epidemic" in your world R2???
Are you saying that the 2 confirmed cases in the USA's herd of 95 million cattle is an EPIDEMIC??? :???:

UK - epidemic with repercussions being felt around the globe

21 cases of vCJD now in France

still unknown toll in the UK from the 3 million servings of BSE consumed

millions of cattle infected and destroyed in the UK

MBM from UK exported globally (hence a decade later we are seeing cases around the world)

Remember the things that make this a frightening family of diseases --

1 - long incubation period, up to 40 and 50 years
2 - great difficulty destroying prions, needs high heats, lives in ground for up a 1 year
3 - always fatal, untreatable
4 - transmissable and transmissability not well understood

And TimH-- the last studies I saw from the UK indicated they estimate from taking samples from tonsillectomy's and appendectomy's that there are 3000-5000 vCJD infected people in the UK, that are presently in the dormant stage....And thats not counting the second generation infections from blood transfusions that they are now afraid of because the scientists have shown where vCJD is transmittable thru blood transfusions....

Japan has one case- but had how much BSE before they started testing all and found 31 cases :???: --- which makes me believe it will only be a matter of time before they find more human vCJD cases-- which will make the Japanese population/consumer demand even harder that ALL coming into their country be tested.....