Does anyone care?

Carbonated_Brains · 06-25-2005, 10:18 PM

I'm sorry, but that's a horribly flawed and uninformed thing to say.

You have no idea whether CJ and Alzheimers are similar from a medical standpoint.

It infects one in a million people worldwide, yearly, making it extreme rare. There are three types, "sporadic", "hereditary", and "acquired".

Sporadic accounts for 85+% of cases, people with no risk factors, and nobody knows how they get the disease.

Hereditary is exactly as it sounds, 10% of cases are hereditary.

Acquired accounts for less than 1%, and is when the person is exposed to infected brain matter or nervous system material. So 1% of 1/1,000,000 of cases are from infected cows and other contaminants (bad surgery procedure, etc).

Boy, am I ever scared.

Elspode · 06-26-2005, 02:04 AM

So, if 1% of 1,000,000 cases are from angry bovines, this would seem to indicate that perhaps there isn't exactly a torrent of diseased beef being foisted upon unsuspecting American consumers.

xoxoxoBruce · 06-26-2005, 02:31 AM

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You have no idea whether CJ and Alzheimers are similar from a medical standpoint.

No, but I do from a NPR standpoint. A few years ago my Dad died of Alzheimers complications in July. The next thankgiving weekend I got caught in a traffic jam outside of NYC. While I was changing my prerecorded music the NYC NPR radio station came on. I listened for a bit because they were talking about Alzheimers. They said they had been trying to autopsy as many Alzheimer cases as possible but the number was still in the low hundreds which isn't much of a sample for a study. Even so, they found something like 10 or 12 % really had Mad Cow.

I won't try to convince anyone because I don't know who I was listening to or what they're credentials were but it caused me to wonder. I rarely eat beef.

busterb · 06-26-2005, 10:07 AM

They were using the chicken house cleanings for feed. IOW chicken shit.

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Carbonated_Brains Does it show up here when I type? Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Between the smoky layers of a prosciutto sandwich! Posts: 355	I'm sorry, but that's a horribly flawed and uninformed thing to say. You have no idea whether CJ and Alzheimers are similar from a medical standpoint. It infects one in a million people worldwide, yearly, making it extreme rare. There are three types, "sporadic", "hereditary", and "acquired". Sporadic accounts for 85+% of cases, people with no risk factors, and nobody knows how they get the disease. Hereditary is exactly as it sounds, 10% of cases are hereditary. Acquired accounts for less than 1%, and is when the person is exposed to infected brain matter or nervous system material. So 1% of 1/1,000,000 of cases are from infected cows and other contaminants (bad surgery procedure, etc). Boy, am I ever scared.

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