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tomm2thumbs

(13,297 posts)
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 09:24 PM Jun 2014

Mad Cow Disease Kills in Texas (fourth U.S. victim)

Source: NatureWorld News

Mad cow disease has claimed its fourth victim ever in the United States after affecting a resident of Texas, officials report. The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) announced this week that laboratory testing conducted in collaboration with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed that a man who died last month of an unknown illness had died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) - the human form of mad cow disease.

In a statement on Tuesday, the CDC pointed out that it's likely that this is an isolated case of the disease, and poses no threat to the general populous.

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The disease tends to take 13 months to progress, but as there is no cure for it, the inevitable neurodegredation caused by the disease always proves fatal.




Read more: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/7446/20140606/mad-cow-disease-kills-texas.htm



In the article the CDC is claiming the cases are all related to travel outside the U.S.

No doubt the United States beef industry would agree with their assessment, especially ahead of the summer barbecue season.



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Laffy Kat

(16,354 posts)
3. "Rare" has got nothing to do with prions.
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 09:55 PM
Jun 2014

You can get it eating a steak that's been cooked to a crisp. These things scare the bejeezus out of me.

littlemissmartypants

(22,418 posts)
4. In the early 90s
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 11:41 PM
Jun 2014

I treated a patient that had cornea transplants which infected him and killed him within weeks of the transplantation. Organs are not regulated in the US and tissue to tissue transmission should be considered. http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/cjd/detail_cjd.htm
Love, Peace and Shelter. Lmsp

24601

(3,940 posts)
12. We (our immediate family) lived in England 94-96 and we may donate neither blood nor organs.
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 10:53 AM
Jun 2014

Medicine doesn't know how long the incubation period could be.

PDittie

(8,322 posts)
9. We couldn't tell the difference between
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 08:18 AM
Jun 2014

BSE and the plain old, run of the mill Tea Party crazy. Until it was too late.

(I can be mean to 'em; I have to live with 'em)

underpants

(182,271 posts)
10. That's why I can't give blood (US Army service in Germany)
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 09:23 AM
Jun 2014

I was a regular blood donator until in about 2006 I answer "Yes" to "Have you lived in Europe for more than 3 months since 1980?"
Since then they will not take my blood (Virginia Blood Services - Red Cross).

I called a year ago to see if they would now accept it and the answer is still NO. They said that the number of people who have been deployed overseas recently is a real problem for them. Some can give but some can't.

mwooldri

(10,291 posts)
13. I can't donate blood anywhere (I think...)
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 01:30 PM
Jun 2014

I came to the US from England in 1999, having grew up there. Until Mad Cow Disease really hit, I have donated blood once... then got banned.

If I wanted to return to England and donate, I can't because of some of the stuff in American food, probably the antibiotics that cattle get injected into them. Though if I returned for a longer period I could donate again.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
14. "the disease remains "underreported and misdiagnosed" even in the United States."
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 02:06 PM
Jun 2014

That is scary, given how easy it is for slaughterhouses to slip in 'downer cows' and other condemned cattle.

And how easy it is for meat wholesalers to switch other cheap crappy meats for 'beef'.

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