No matter how you classify it, it is STILL a prion disease! I KNOW this is kept under wraps, because the last 3 cases I took care of were never reported. All in a large tertiary care center in the midwest. I really think people would want to know. It is such a horrible death, and completely incurable.
Quoting: Missouri Foxtrotter Yes they are both a horrible prion diseases. However you wrongly jumped to the conclusion that beef was the cause.
CJD is a spontaneously occuring mutation that occurs in approximatly 1 out of 1 million mammals.fact.
Once an infected mammal(human or bovine etc) has this disease it can be tranfered to another mammal by transfering the infected (mutated) prions into another body. This can be done by eating parts of the infected body(google Kuru [
link to en.wikipedia.org] or by blood transfusion or
by improperly cleaned surgical instruments! When a cluster of CJD appears it is often because of contaminated surgical instruments......most health care fascilities(eg privately run hospitals) do their damndest to keep outbreaks hushed up.
The reason that Britain had an epidemic of mad cow disease was because they were grinding up and feeding livestock parts that the human food chain was not using (eg the intestines bones etc) back to livestock in commercial feedlots. Thus it was just a matter of time before an infected animal was fed and pretty soon the whole problem was amplified and snowballed. This practice of feeding mammals back to mammals was immediately outlawed and stopped once this was understood.
I hope this helps OP.....I know you mean well and I agree that there is something seriously wrong with system that hides facts and truths from the general public, whether it is the govt or the medical profession or modern religions. It is high time that people who know the truth stand up and inform others.
