Risk of mad cow disease from farmed fish?

Fri Jun 26, 2009 4:59pm EDT

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Three U.S. scientists are concern about the potential of people contracting Creutzfeldt Jakob disease -- the human form of "mad cow disease" -- from eating farmed fish who are fed byproducts rendered from cows.

Mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy is a fatal brain disease in cattle, which scientists believe can cause Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in humans who eat infected cow parts.

In the latest issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, Dr. Robert P. Friedland, a neurologist at University of Louisville in Kentucky and colleagues suggest that farmed fish fed contaminated cow parts could transmit Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.

The scientists want government regulators to ban feeding cow meat or bone meal to fish until the safety of this common practice can be confirmed.

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So ya eat fish....but the damn fish can kill ya, too!

Good grief.

learned I cannot donate blood because of the time I had spent in the UK previously.

I had no idea what "farmed" actually meant, re: fish. I am EXTREMELY upset at this news, to repeat myself.

I always thought it was because of Chernobyl.

for exactly the same reason.

There are few other food sources that require so much antibiotics for their production, or are as potentially catastrophic to the farm's local environment. The hidden costs of fish farming are too high.

This really pisses me off. The poor creatures to start with and then up and down the food-chain it goes.

Fish eat COWS?

I'm so bad I don't buy any farmed fish.