Prion diseases in animals and meat:
"http://www.newschannel5.com/content/news/5184.asp
Fort Campbell Soldier Dying From Mad Cow Disease May 2004
And doctors say there is no cure.
Sgt. Alford returned home from Iraq with a disease that has ravaged his brain. His parents, Gail and John Alford live in Karnack, TX. They are taking care of him now.
The family keeps photo albums that have captured the favorable images of his high school athletic years and the Fort Campbell Green Beret.
He was one of the army’s youngest soldiers. But everything changed after a secret mission three years ago in Oman when villagers honored James with a banquet that included a sheep’s brain infected with disease. "
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Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) a fatal prion disease, in deer, elk and moose is epidemic in the US and Canada. It has been found in both muscle and fat of infected animal.
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The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) took note of prion diseases which killed men who had eaten venison and wild game, but concluded there was no connection between the deer/game meat and the fatal human neurodegenerative diseases.
"Risk for Transmission to Humans Epidemiologic Studies"
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol10no6/03-1082.htm
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The CDC is also unconcerned about clusters of human prion disease Creutzfeldt Jakob in the US:
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/morgan11304.cfm
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Many people believe Bovine Spongiform Encephaloathy (BSE - Mad Cow Disease) has been circulating and amplifying in the US food supply for decades.
Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy, a fatal prion disease, struck in the US in the 1960s.
The first documentation of mad cow (BSE)/prion disease in US cattle was In Wisconsin 1985, when Dr. Richard Marsh proved that feeding farmed mink downer cows caused the fatal transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME). TME has been experimentally transmitted to ferrets.
http://www.rense.com/general34/prions.htm
Scrapie found in 5 Goats in Ottawa County, Michigan
http://www.michigan.gov/mda/0,1607,7-125-1572_3628-186758--,00.html
Scrapie in sheep in the US: (Scrapie prion disease is fatal only to animals - not to humans.)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/publications/animal_health/content/printable_version/06_AHReport_508.pdf
page 52 OF 192 "Case and Infected Flock Summary—In FY 2006, 116 newly identified infected flocks were reported,
and 350 scrapie cases were confirmed and reportedby the National Veterinary Services Laboratories
(NVSL) (tables 8 and 9). A scrapie case is defined as an animal for which a diagnosis of scrapie has
been made by the NVSL using a USDA-approved test (typically immunohistochemistry on the obex or
a peripheral lymph node). "
In the late 1990s, there was an outbreak in Kentucky of human prion disease (11 cases of fatal Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease.) All of the victims enjoyed eating squirrel brains.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9500E0D91231F93AA1575BC0A961958260
Domestic cats have died from Feline spongiform encephalopahy (FSE). Many zoo cats (cheetahs, pumas, lions, tigers ) have died from prion diseases after being fed downer cattle. Zoological ruminants have suffered transmissible spongiform encephalopathy\ies (TSE).
http://www.mad-cow.org/zoo_cites_annotated.html
Rendered MBM (meat and bone meal) from 1.9 million downer cows untested for BSE, plus road kill including dead deer untested for Chromic wasting Disease (CWD), euthanized pets, farm and wildlife deadstock, and slaugherhouse wastes and offal are used for dog and cat food, and feeds for pigs, chickens, fish, and many other animals. Rendering does NOT inactivate prions.
http://www.sludgevictims.com/prions/downers.html
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http://www.humanitarian.net/law/biodefense/bse_12004.html
"Hound ataxia had reportedly been occurring since the 1930's, and a known risk factor for its development was the feeding to hounds of downer cows, and particularly bovine offal. Circumstantial evidence suggests that bovine offal may also be causal in FSE (Feline Spongiform Encephalopathy) , and TME (transmissible mink encephalopathy) in mink. Despite the inconclusive nature of the neuropathology, it was clearly evident that this putative canine spongiform encephalopathy merited further investigation. '
A study from the University of California has found that over 60 percent of dogs between 11 and 16 years old had one or more signs of cognitive dysfunction syndrome (CDS). This syndrome is similar to Alzheimer’s in humans in that in involves disorientation, confusion, memory loss and behavioral changes
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/do-dogs-get-alzheimers.html
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10684682?dopt=Abstract&holding=npg
The neuropathology of experimental bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the pig.
Conclusion. (Excerpt)
" The presence of neurological signs in pigs inoculated with BSE without
detectable PrPd raises the possibility that the BSE agent may produce a
prion disease in pigs that remains undetected by the current postmortem
tests." (note: pigs are butchered at an early age before they have a chance to exhibit brain disease.)
http://www.gaia-health.com/articles/000004-New-Neurological-Disease-Found-In-Pig-Workers.shtml
New Neurological Disease Found in Pig Workers July 2008
by Heidi Stevenson
We now have a new horrible disease brought by the same insane meat-raising industry that brought Mad Cow Disease and Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, both implicated from the brains of sheep and cattle. It's known by two terms, Progressive Inflammatory Neuropathy and Immune Polyradiculoneuropathy (IPR). Neither is really a name, but more of a description. They indicate that the disease involves inflammation of the spinal cord, has multiple neurological symptoms, gets worse, and affects the immune system.
All of the victims are employees in pork slaughtering plants. They harvest pig brains by blowing them out of the heads with compressed-air guns. Yes, harvest is the term used. It's believed that aerosolized pig brains, which are breathed in by the workers, are the cause.
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Many scientists believe Alzheimer's (and Parkinson's) Diseases are transmissible prion/protein diseases:
http://www.sludgevictims.com/pathogens/ALZHEIMERS_is_a_prion_disease.pdf (AD and PD = over 6.3 million US victims --
and rates for early-onset Alzheimer's (under age 65) are also soaring . . . .
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/08/eveningnews/main3919747.shtml
"Could Alzheimer's be infectious? "
http://neurophilosophy.wordpress.com/2006/11/24/could-alzheimers-be-infectious/
SEE reply posted by:
Dr. Murray Waldman, coroner for the city of Toronto, Canada:
"In answer to the question how would Alzheimer’s (AD) be transmitted, I have written a book “Dying For A Hamburger” that hypothesizes that AD is spread by how we in North America and Europe feed and process meat, mainly beef.
If you study the rates of AD and its geographical distribution, you will find that rates start to soar when a country becomes meat eating (i.e. Japan and Korea in the 1960s) and rises even faster when it adopts a fast food culture (the US and Western Europe in the 50s and 60s) and remains low in vegetarian countries (India) and those without a processed meat industry or fast foods (equatorial Africa)…Murray "
"Waldman argues that because processed meat and hamburger from many cows can end up in a single package, a single prion-infected cow among millions of slaughtered cows can infect multiple humans.
A century ago, that couldn't happen because meat from a single animal was kept separate from the meat of other animals. Cows also weren't fed protein additives made from the remains of other cows, so prion diseases weren't transmitted from one cow to another. © The Calgary Herald 2004'
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See VIDEO Interview –Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease
http://www.healthydepartment.com/alzheim...sease-4541.html
Interview with Dr. Colm Kelleher author of “Brain Trust:The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease” recorded November 16, 2004. video about 1 hour long – well worth the time
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"Prion diseases may also be caused by modern meat packing practices where by "a typical burger patty is packed with the meat and fat of 50 to 100 cattle from multiple states and two to four countries. "
"Eat two hanburgers a week — as the average American does — and in a year's time the consumer samples a stampede: 5,200 to 10,400 cattle."
http://www.think-aboutit.com/health/CattleDrive.htm
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...circulating and amplifying . . .
Helane Shields, Alton, NH
[email protected] Infectious human and animal prions in the sewage sludge "biosolids" being spread on ballfields, parks and playgrounds, home lawns, flower and vegetable gardens, and on grazing lands, hay fields and dairy pastures:
http://www.sludgevictims.com/pathogens/prion.html
