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The Truth of the Matter
Yes, another case! In the US this is now three people in all of history out of a population of 300,000,000 people. World wide its about 200 people out of a population of 4 BILLION.
How this affliction grabs so many headlines is pretty amazing in my book. Literally millions of people are suffering from chronic disease here in the US and nobody seems to worry about the grain, grain-based foods, and grain-fed livestock products they consume.
And what's so amazing about that is that for decades now scientists have been pointing to grain in the diet as the reason for so much chronic disease.
Go to our Science Links Web page and you'll see.
Ted Slanker
Third U.S. Case of Mad Cow in Humans
U.S. CASE OF VARIANT CJD CONFIRMED
UNITED STATES: A young adult, who recently relocated to the U.S. from
the Middle East, was diagnosed with the rare brain-destroying disease.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) along with the Virginia Department of Health confirmed a case of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD) in a U.S. resident. This is the third vCJD case identified in a U.S. resident.
According to a CDC news release, the patient is a young adult who was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and has lived in the United States since late 2005. The patient occasionally stayed in the United States for up to three months at a time since 2001 and there was a shorter visit in 1989.
Variant CJD is a rare, degenerative, fatal brain disorder that emerged in the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s. Approximately 200 people have been affected worldwide – most cases have been in the United Kingdom. Although experience with this new disease is limited, evidence to date indicates that there has never been a case transmitted from person-to-person except through blood transfusion. Instead, the disease is thought to result primarily from consumption of cattle products contaminated with the agent that causes bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), another fatal brain-destroying disease. Although no cases of BSE in cattle have been reported in Saudi Arabia, potentially contaminated cattle products from the United Kingdom may have been exported to Saudi Arabia for many years during the large UK BSE outbreak.
In the most recent U.S. case, the patient has no history of blood transfusion, neurosurgical procedures, or residing in or visiting countries in Europe. Based on the patient's history, the occurrence of a previously reported Saudi case of vCJD attributed to likely consumption of BSE-contaminated cattle products in Saudi Arabia, and they expected greater than seven-year incubation period for food-related vCJD.
“This U.S. case-patient was most likely infected from contaminated cattle products consumed as a child when living in Saudi Arabia,” CDC said. “The current patient has no history of donating blood and the public health investigation has identified no risk of transmission to U.S. residents from this patient.”
Web posted: December 6, 2006
What Are The Odds???
Back in 2004 The Utah Statesman, the official newspaper of the University of Utah, had an article that reviewed the odds of contracting Mad Cow. The conclusions are still valid to this very day. Click on Utah Statesman for the link.
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