Does anyone care?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Just to clarify, glatt, the correct statistic without the typo was 1 in 1,200 cows, right?

I understand that it's currently 1 in 1,200. It was 1 in 12,000 when the first sick cow from Canada was found. After they found the first cow two years ago, they increased the testing tenfold as part of the campaign to re-assure the public that they were on top of things.

Originally Posted by Elspode

Since we are missing thousands of infected cows with our inspections being so poor, there must be hundreds of thousands of cases of CJ in human consumers, then, yes?

Well, several million old people with memory loss and dementia are diagnosed with alzheimers. It's very possible that a large portion of them actually have cj disease and were mis-diagnosed. The two diseases are very similar.