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Anonymous Coward User ID: 243974 United States 06/11/2007 12:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Personally, I believe that it's because of mad cow or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Stop eating unsafe beef. It take 10 to 40 years to manifest in humans that have eaten tanted meat. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has earned the pithy nickname "mad cow disease" thanks to the invidious symptoms presented in affected cattle, i.e. staggering, tremors, involuntary muscle spasms, bewilderment, hypersensitivity to auditory and tactile stimuli, and other examples of seemingly "mad" behavior. Like BSE, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is also a transmissible, invariably fatal spongiform encephalopathy with a prolonged incubation period that leaves sponge-like holes in a victim's brain. CJD, however, is the human version and this includes a newly identified variant of CJD, linked to BSE in British cattle. "In humans," says author and environmentalist, Peter Montague, "the BSE-like disease is called 'new variant Creutzfeld-Jacob disease,' or nvCJD for short. CJD has been recognized for a long time as a rare disease of the elderly-very similar to Alzheimer's disease-but nvCJD is different. It has somewhat different symptoms, a different pattern of disintegration in the brain, and it strikes young people, even teenagers. Between 1995 and early 1998, at least 23 people died of nvCJD in Britain and at least one in France, the oldest of them age 42 and the youngest 15." (Yet the Times is "startled" by the rise in dementia in younger and younger people.) Read more here: [link to www.organicconsumers.org] |
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