Updated December 21, 2008

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JUST when it looked as if we had mad cow disease licked, a new threat may be lurking down on the farm - bovine amyloidic spongiform encephalopathy. First discovered in Italian cows in 2003, BASE has infected a monkey, suggesting that the disease may also be capable of spreading to humans.

Alarmingly, the disease took hold - and killed - the monkey faster than strains of classical BSE and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human version of mad cow disease, injected into other monkeys as part of the same experiment. What's more, the symptoms and brain damage look very like a rare form of "sporadic" vCJD, called MM2, which has no known cause, raising the prospect that BASE may already infect people.

Emmanuel Comoy of the Institute of Emerging Diseases and Innovative Therapies in Fontenay-aux-Roses, France, and his colleagues made the discovery after injecting brain material from an Italian cow with BASE into the monkey's brain. After 26 months, it was dead (PLoS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003017).

The monkey's symptoms were different from those of other monkeys injected with human vCJD or classical BSE, and from people and cows with these diseases, whose cerebellum and brain stem are damaged. Instead of becoming aggressive and losing their appetite and ability to move, both the cow and the monkey with BASE lost their memories and the ability to orientate. This fits with damage to the cortex. "It's as if they're lost," says Comoy. Significantly, humans with MM2 have similar symptoms and patterns of brain damage.

"We have here an atypical cattle strain of BSE that's clearly transmissible to primates, that's more easily transmissible than classical BSE, and which causes a different disease," says Comoy.

Dormant Mad Cow in people:

USA 36%

UK 35%

Scotland 45%

Ireland 40% of

France 25%

Holland 20%

Canada 15%

Italy 25%

China 25%

India 15%

Africa 20%

South America 35%

New Zealand 15%

Austrailia 25%

Russia 40%

How can that many people have it and show no symptoms?

1) Mad Cow at first the immune gets affected and weakened without your awareness

That is the thymus or/and the spleen inturn the T-cells and Nk-cells

2) Brain neurotransmitters get 25% affected and blood vessels in body and brain weaken right away by 15% increasing leaks of cerebrospinal fluids and or blood. Symptoms when the brain is dry is just more headaches because the brain drops a bit.

3) First year dormant in you it affects the stomach lining by 20%

4) First year Mad Cow is dormant in you it affects the large intestines by 20% and small intestines by 35%. Symptoms 35% more susceptible to bowel infections and inflammations. A 30%- decresing absorption of nutrition.

Genes and DNA are affected 25% all without our awareness

Muscles and nerves are affected by Mad Cow by 25% in year 1-7 with little awareness

Non of the above will be hardly noticed by the average person. By the 3-5th year of dormant Mad Cow one makes irrational decisions and poor judgment. 5-7 year + one gets more violent and comes down with multiple immune disorders and diseases, organs are now failing. You are much more tired from 1-7 years into by up to 40%+.

Right before you die it is common to do so from a stroke to the brain. The Doctor then states on the cause of death; a stroke or heart attack. No one knew that person died of Mad Cow. Since there are no tests used for Mad Cow in cows OR in people we have a large unknowing of exactly how many have died of Mad Cow so far. The questions remain does one catch it from infected blood transfusions? YES! Does one catch it from love making without protection? YES! Can it be transfered by kissing french style with tongue and mouth fluids ? YES!

I get people mad when I report Truth

They think I need them so scare tactics are used for people to be healed by me since I am the only person that can cure Mad Cow as long as it is not badly advance yet! WRONG!!! I need no one, the angels bring people to me I do nothing I see ignorance and pain and suffering I am just desiring to get through people's Mad Cow brains that had the added assault of the atom smasher smashing their brain waves too. Couple that with thousands of karmic blocks to learn from the dark with ego and pride as a barrier.

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Japan will not halt mad cow beef to consumers

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan does not plan to halt imports of U.S. beef after the discovery of a U.S. shipment that included parts banned due to the risk of mad cow disease, Japan's government spokesman told a news conference on Thursday.

Tokyo has suspended imports from the meat packer that supplied the beef, a National Beef Packing Co plant in California, after the discovery. "It seems it was shipped to Japan by mistake," Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said.

"I don't think there is a need to suspend imports," he said.

But Machimura added that Japan would increase testing, aiming to check 10 percent of incoming U.S. beef cargoes, up from the current 1 percent.

Japan has halted imports of U.S. beef from other plants, but these have mostly been due to improper documentation or other technical reasons.

It was the first time Japan discovered banned specific risk materials (SRM) in a cargo of U.S. beef since July 2006, when Tokyo eased its beef import ban.

Japan, like many other nations, first imposed a ban on U.S. beef in 2003 after the United States discovered a case of mad cow disease.

But Machimura added that the incident could again fan fears about the safety of U.S. beef in Japan.

Doubts about the safety of U.S. beef, which had been slowly easing, has been one of the reasons behind the slow return of the meat to Japan, once the top overseas market for U.S. beef.

Japan, which bought $1.4 billion worth of U.S. beef in 2003, has resumed imports but on strict condition, including that the meat only came from cattle aged 20 months or younger.

The United States has been pressing Japan to scrap all restrictions.

(Reporting by Leika Kihara and Miho Yoshikawa; Editing by Hugh Lawson)

Moving Mad Cow research to USA mainland

Dangerous animal virus on US mainland?

By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press Writer April 11, 2008

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is likely to move its research on one of the most contagious animal diseases from an isolated island laboratory to the U.S. mainland near herds of livestock, raising concerns about a catastrophic outbreak.

Skeptical Democrats in Congress are demanding to see internal documents they believe highlight the risks and consequences of the decision. An epidemic of the disease, foot and mouth, which only affects animals, could devastate the livestock industry.

One such government report, produced last year and already turned over to lawmakers by the Homeland Security Department, combined commercial satellite images and federal farm data to show the proximity to livestock herds of locations that have been considered for the new lab. "Would an accidental laboratory release at these locations have the potential to affect nearby livestock?" asked the nine-page document. It did not directly answer the question.

A simulated outbreak of the disease — part of an earlier U.S. government exercise called "Crimson Sky" — ended with fictional riots in the streets after the simulation's National Guardsmen were ordered to kill tens of millions of farm animals, so many that troops ran out of bullets. In the exercise, the government said it would have been forced to dig a ditch in Kansas 25 miles long to bury carcasses. In the simulation, protests broke out in some cities amid food shortages.

"It was a mess," said Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., who portrayed the president in the 2002 exercise. Now, like other lawmakers from the states under consideration, Roberts supports moving the government's new lab to his state. Manhattan, Kan., is one of five mainland locations under consideration. "It will mean jobs" and spur research and development, he says.

The other possible locations for the new National Bio-and Agro-Defense Facility are Athens, Ga.; Butner, N.C.; San Antonio; and Flora, Miss. The new site could be selected later this year, and the lab would open by 2014. The numbers of livestock in the counties and surrounding areas of the finalists range from 542,507 in Kansas to 132,900 in Georgia, according to the Homeland Security study.

Foot-and-mouth virus can be carried on a worker's breath or clothes, or vehicles leaving a lab, and is so contagious it has been confined to Plum Island, N.Y., for more than a half-century — far from commercial livestock. The existing lab is 100 miles northeast of New York City in the Long Island Sound, accessible only by ferry or helicopter. Researchers there who work with the live virus are not permitted to own animals at home that would be susceptible, and they must wait at least a week before attending outside events where such animals might perform, such as a circus.

The White House says modern safety rules at labs are sufficient to avoid any outbreak. But incidents in Britain have demonstrated that the foot-and-mouth virus can cause remarkable economic havoc — and that the virus can escape from a facility.

An epidemic in 2001 devastated Britain's livestock industry, as the government slaughtered 6 million sheep, cows and pigs. Last year, in a less serious outbreak, Britain's health and safety agency concluded the virus probably escaped from a site shared by a government research center and a vaccine maker. Other outbreaks have occurred in Taiwan in 1997 and China last year and in 2006.

If even a single cow signals an outbreak in the U.S., emergency plans permit the government to shut down all exports and movement of livestock. Herds would be quarantined, and a controlled slaughter could be started to stop the disease from spreading.

Infected animals weaken and lose weight. Milk cows don't produce milk. They remain highly infectious, even if they survive the virus.

The Homeland Security Department is convinced it can safely operate the lab on the mainland, saying containment procedures at high-security labs have improved. The livestock industry is divided. Some experts, including the former director at the aging Plum Island Animal Disease Center, say research ought to be kept away from cattle populations — and, ideally, placed where the public already has accepted dangerous research.

The former director, Dr. Roger Breeze, suggested the facility could be safely located at the Atlanta campus of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., home of The United States Army Medical Research Institute for infectious diseases.

Another possibility, Breeze said, is on Long Island, where there is no commercial livestock industry. That would allow retention of most of the current Plum Island employees.

Asked about the administration's finalist sites located near livestock, Breeze said: "It seems a little odd. It goes against the ... safety program of the last 50 years."

The former head of the U.S. Agriculture Department's Agricultural Research Service said Americans are not prepared for a foot-and-mouth outbreak that has been avoided on the mainland since 1929.

"The horrific prospect of exterminating potentially millions of animals is not something this country's ready for," said Dr. Floyd Horn.

The Agriculture Department ran the Plum Island lab until 2003. It was turned over to the Homeland Security Department because preventing an outbreak is now part of the nation's biological defense program.

Plum Island researchers work on detection of the disease, strategies to control epidemics including vaccines and drugs, tests of imported animals to ensure they are free of the virus and training of professionals.

The new facility will add research on diseases that can be transferred from animals to humans. The Plum Island facility is not secure enough to handle that higher-level research.

Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee also are worried about the lab's likely move to the mainland. The chairman, Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., and the head of the investigations subcommittee, Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., are threatening to subpoena records they say Homeland Security is withholding from Congress. Those records include reports about "Crimson Sky," an internal review about a publicized 1978 accidental release of foot-and-mouth disease on Plum Island and reports about any previously undisclosed virus releases on the island during the past half century.

The lawmakers set a deadline of Friday for the administration to turn over reports they requested. Otherwise, they warned in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, they will arrange a vote next week to issue a congressional subpoena.

A new facility at Plum Island is technically a possibility. Signs point to a mainland site, however, after the administration spent considerable time and money scouting new locations. Also, there are financial concerns about operating from a location accessible only by ferry or helicopter.

The Homeland Security Department says laboratory animals would not be corralled outside the new facility, and they would not come into contact with local livestock. All work with the virus and lab waste would be handled securely and any material leaving would be treated and monitored to ensure it was sterilized.

"Containment technology has improved dramatically since foot-and-mouth disease prohibitions were put in place in 1948," Homeland Security spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said.

Cattle farmers and residents are divided over the proposal to move the lab to the mainland.

"I would like to believe we could build a facility, with the knowledge and technology we have available, that would be basically safe from a bio-security standpoint," said John Stuedemann, a cattle farmer near Athens, Ga., and a former scientist at the Agriculture Department.

Nearby, community activist Grady Thrasher in Athens is worried about an outbreak from a research lab. Thrasher, a former securities lawyer, has started a petition drive against moving the lab to Georgia, saying the risks are too great.

"There's no way you can balance that equation by putting this in the middle of a community where it will do the most harm," Thrasher said. "The community is now aroused, so I think we have a majority against this."

In North Carolina, commissioners in Granville County originally endorsed moving the lab to their area but later withdrew support. Officials from Homeland Security ultimately met with residents for more than four hours, but the commissioners have taken no further action to back the facility.

"Accidents are going to happen 50 years down the road or one year down the road," said Bill McKellar, a pharmacist in Butner, N.C., who leads an opposition group that has formed a research committee of lawyers and doctors.

*Last time research for contagious diseases were tested in labs in USA was Long Island Sound in New York and since then Lyme disease has been carried in epidemic proportions to other New England areas by deers swimming to CT and Mosquito's carrying them.

What animals can get Mad Cow if exposed?

If exposed to Mad Cow how much can common animals get mad cow?

Other cows 100%
Chickens not at all
birds of pry like harks and others 15%+
ducks 20%+
sheep 65%
pigs 35%+
dog 25%+
cat 15%+
mice 55%+
any bird that lands on a infected cow 15%+

How is Mad Cow transmitted?

ingested and eaten 100%
breathing it in at a infected slaughter house or when cows are buried 15%+
vitamins/minerals with infected bovine bone meal 0%
cosmetics with infected bovine products 0%
pets with infected pet food 25%+
touching a mad cow with our hands 25%+
Mad cows are burnt and breathing the smoke 15%+
milk ingested from infected cows 100%
cheese ingested from infected cows 95%
ice cream from infected cows 75%
yogurt from infected cows 60%
Baby formula from infected milk 90%
Blood transfusion from infected dormant person to another 45%

Organic beef is at the same risk as regular beef as far as Mad Cow risk
Early diagnosis while dormant 0%
Early treatment 0%

That is what people should work on.....
You the reader should read the rest of this page you owe it to yourself.......

3% of that spongy brain disease in USA
8% of all US pets have spongy brain disease from infected pet food and organic pet food is not exception

With pet food I give fish and some chicken only

While dormant for months and even years what symptoms will I have?

0%

Whats in beef anyway?

WHAT'S IN A BURGER? BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS (AS WELL AS BIOTERRORISM)

Blood, trioxypurine, adrenalin, cholesterol, prions, fecal matter,
colon bacteria, toxoplasmosis, trichinosis, insecticides, female
hormones, antibiotics, mercury, arsenic, chromium, polychlorinated
biphenols, no vitamin C, no natural bulk, senility, sterility,
cancer, anthrax, lead, Mad Cow, Mad Pig,Mad Deer, impotence, fly
dung, smallpox, tularemia, Alzheimer's, alcoholism, addiction
I INTRINSIC IN ALL ANIMAL FLESH
. THE BLOOD is called juice after its chemical nature changes from
cooking.
. SWEAT OR PRE URINE is uric acid or trixoypurine.. more addictive
than caffein (dioxypurine). It is the primary cause of arthritis and
rigidity as it crystallizes into needles jabbing the joints. Uric
acid would have been eliminated by the animal's muscle cells had she
not been butchered. Carnivores have 5 times the kidney size
per pound of body weight.
. THE FECES poured out by terrorized animals has traces of ecoli or
colon bacteria.. not only their own waste but that of other cows on
which they often slip as they are being skinned alive at Iowa Beef
Processors or other sites. Dr. John Harvy Kellogg, affiliated in the
last century with Kellogg cereals found that after a few hours ecoli
(colon or intestinal bacteria) can multiply into the billions. As
trillions
of gallons of fecal matter are dumped into the waterways,
ecoli or colon bacteria based infections are coming to
vegetarians as well as nonvegetarians. The proximity of swinging
hanging cadavers causes ecoli and other diseases to be transmitted
to other cadavers.

SENILITY (AND STERILITY)
. ALzheimer's Disease is caused by ALcohol, cooking with ALuminum,
and the prions in ALlanimal protein, plaque which builds up
in the brain interfering with function. (Mercury destruction
of memory is not intrinsic to meat but added.)
. The animal fat in meat clogs cerebral arteries.
(Wm Shakespeare in "Twelfth Night": "He is a heavy eater of beef.
Methinks it doth harm to his wit." )
. Lancet, the British medical magazine, found that
Mad Cow is sometimes diagnosed as dementia.
ADRENALIN OR EPINEPHRINE is secreted in massive amounts by
captive helpless terrorized animals who hear the screams of
their fellows while they stand in the slaughterhouse line
or in open slatted slaughterhouse trucks in the freezing cold
of winter.. as trucks rip through mountain passes.. or
the suffocating heat of summer. Dr Loving at Ohio State has
found that humans who fight have high adrenalin blood levels
even 22 hours later. Animal fright hormones saturate the blood
and muscle cells of animals. These hormones are protein enzymes
some of whose links are broken by cooking. Many remain intact
recreating the anger in those who consume the flesh. Adrenalin
is unreleased tears.
It is the ingestion of anger, terror, and agony. Such meat
adrenalin has been correlated to violence. A recent Maryland prison
study reported reduced violence in those eating vegetables. Ingesting
meat causes the body to be a constant state of unnatural alert.

. ANGER see above
. DESPAIR AND DEPRESSION see above
. VIOLENCE.. see above
. RAPE Alaska has led the nation in sexual abuse and in ingestion
of animal protein. Factors are adrenalin, female hormones
which stimulate unnatural sexual response given to animals etc.
. NO VITAMIN C
C is in no animal products.. It speeds up the flow of brain snyapse
messages and promotes connective tissue in the skin, said two time
Nobel Laureaute Linus Pauling, who
defined an orthomolecule as a molecule in fruit. C is a toxin
bouncer. C should be consumed within the bulk of fruit, or
in a buffered state, or with food.

. NO FIBER..
. THE ANIMAL FAT CAUSES HEART ATTACKS
Animal fat clogs the arteries causing heart attacks and strokes,
which are the single major cause of death in the world. Meat deaths
per year outdo alcohol, tobacco, and accidents combined. It is not
just the animal fat in meat which causes this,
but the uric acid (trioxypurine) is an unnatural stimulant, as is
the adrenalin enzyme. Adrenalin mobilizes the body for fight or
flight.
Meateating puts the body in a constant state of stress.
. CANCER
Countries with the highest meat consumption have the highest rates
of
intestinal cancer. Canada, Australia, the US, Argentina, and Chile
are some of these. Meat has no natural bulk and
causes a constipation which leads to total blockage.
. OVERWEIGHT:
a. Dr Mervyn Hardinge working at an Ivy League university
found that vegans weigh 23 lbs. less than nonvegetarians while dairy
vegetarians weigh 12 lbs. less.
Fruitarians weighed least. In the 3 month isocaloric study, the groups
were all given the same number of calories per day. The increased
bulk and lack of constipating flesh in vegetarian and vegan diets is
a factor.
b. The milk of cows is designed to produce a thousand pound animal.
c. The lack of fiber in animal products causes constipation and
retained calories.
. ANTHRAX, SMALLPOX (COW POX), TULAREMIA
and other forms of bioterrorism all originate in the consumption of
animal flesh or contact with their skins (hides, leather making,
woolsorters' disease) The USDA which protects the multi trillion
dollar
meat industry while attempting to prevent diversity in fruit seeds
from entering the country attributes only 700 deaths in animals to
anthrax last year (500 in Texas) while virtually only NBC reported
the anthrax in November 2001 in 21 California cows. (Author of 9
books Leonard Horowitz writes that the CIA gave Battelle of Columbus
Ohio 1 billion dollars to develop weaponized anthrax.)
SONGLESSNESS
Susan Miller, voice specialist with Georgetown Univ Hosp (a
vivisecting institution) has spoken of the rigidity of vocal chords
caused by dioxypurine (caffeine). Trioxypurine (uric acid in meat)
is even more damaging.
DINOCOCCUS RADIODURANS: According to NPR in December of 2002, a
dinococcus radiodurans
can survive within meat though irradiated.
ACIDITY Many diseases of acidity are related to acidification
of the body from acid foods. Gastrointestinal acid reflux
has been called by some gastroenterologists a product of fast food.
ECOLI OR COLON BACTERIA When animals are butchered Dr John Harvey
Kellogg MD found their colon bacteria or ecoli could multiply
by the billions in a few hours. Now ecoli from slaughterhouses,
feedlots, and farms is filling the streams of the world. Not
only food poisoning deaths but ear infections and immune problems
are a result.
II DISEASES ASSOCIATED WITH MEAT CONSUMPTION
There are tens of thousands of diseases caused by the consumption of
the flesh of animals. The USDA listed slightly over 100 in the early
part of the 20th Century, but as knowledge has increased and toxic
pollutants have saturated
the environment,
the number has increased.
PERITONITIS When George Wallace was shot, he never completely healed
from peritonitis caused by the bullet ripping through his intestinal
tract after he had just eaten a hamburger. The bullet carried colon
bacteria throughout the body.
GANGRENE The downed cows passed into the human meat supply by
the corrupt USDA are often gangrenous.
PUTREFACTION: Like any corpse, animal flesh (meat) deteriorates
after death. Even when the cadaver is frozen, creiophilic
bacteria multiply. (see below) The inability of the body efficiently
to digest animal flesh is a cause of appendicitis. When the animal
flesh is heated, thermophilic
bacteria develop. Dr John Harvey Kellogg found that billions of
ecoli bacteria
multiply in the body after the animal is dead a few hours.
GELATIN a name for the ground up bones of animals.. which
can contain Mad Cow frequent brand name Jello
MAD COW MAD DEER MAD ELK MAD FISH ETC Dr Stanley Prusiner went to
the University of California from Harvard to receive more priority
for his prion work, which won a Nobel Prize. Mad Cow proteins can
incubate for 50 years said the World Health Organization's
communicable disease division on the CBC. (Gelatin containing Mad Cow
is found in jello, gelcaps, soaps, toothpastes, soups etc. Vegans
are
catheterized much more seldom than nonvegans. However if by chance a
vegan is unconscious and catheterized against her will, often the
gels used against her will are animal derived.
The 5th Circuit has just upheld Howard Lyman after Amarillo
cattlemen
sued him. The Court held the truth is not libelous.

The factory farming of over 81% of US fish with bone meal,
unregulated for animal parts, causes fish to have sexual and other
deformities
and Mad Fish Disease or Piscean Spongiform Encephalopathy.
. THE PRIONS cause cancer. Prion diseases include CJD, Creutzfeld-
Jacob Disease, GSS Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome, FFI,
Fatal Familial Insomnia,
Kuru, a disease cannibals contract from eating human brains, (as
animals contract Mad Cow, Mad Deer and other diseases from being fed
other animals' parts),
Alpers Sydrome

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Areas and Establishments that have recalled beef

www.cdph.ca.gov

USDA Announces Class II Voluntary Recall of Raw and Frozen Beef Products from Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co.
See the current California retail distribution list (Updated March 6, 2008.)
Additional Products Containing Westland Recalled Beef (Updated Feb. 29, 2008.)

Dowsing with God cases of dormant Mad Cow

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Dormant Mad Cow in humans internationally
Takes 18 months to 5-20 years average to emerge

Africa 3900
Thailand 370
Hong Kong 270
Vietnam 430
Indonesia 240
USA 180
UK 310
New Zealand 0
Australia 0
Russia 0
Canada 130
Brazil 460
Mexico 550
China 780
India 0
Spain 170
Sweden 0
Norway 0
Finland 0
Switzerland 87
Saudi Arabia 490
France 250
Italy 280
Turkey 420
Greece 0
Ireland 650
Scotland 680

Mad Cow in the Midlle East and Africa

by Ali Chaudhry

Last month there was a staggering discovery that in Pakistan thousands of people are pushed into the valley of death due to the burgers of McDonald's. The beef which is used in the beef burgers of "McDonald's" is being imported from South Africa, which has had many cases of "Mad Cow Disease".

"Mad Cow Disease" is a dangerous disease which is spread by eating the beef of infected cows. People came to know about this disease in 1997 in England. For the last 14 years almost 1.7 million people have been affected by this disease, in the majority of the cases it was fatal. To date there is no cure. European specialists have been trying day and night to find a cure for this disease. But there seems to be no ray of hope for this. Some European specialists are considering this disease more dangerous than AIDS.

This disease is encircled mostly within Europe, Australia (no) and South Africa. In the past few days Germany's Health minister and food minister had resigned due to the inability to combat the serious conditions caused by this disease.

In Pakistan, this disease has spread massively due to the "McDonald's" burgers. Last year to combat this disease in Europe, thousands of cows have been burned alive. The beef which is imported from South Africa is the main source of the spreading of this disease in Pakistan and is used in thousands of "McDonald's" burgers every day.

Lahore Corporation has dispatched a notice to "McDonald's Pakistan" to bring forth the information in their notice, in which they were inquired about the report, however it seems that personal relationships between higher-ups in both entities are deliberately blocking the truth. This report is being covered up by Governmental and sensitive institutions where as, here the veterinary and food department are blaming each other.

According to the resources, "The Sharrif Family" has close relations with "McDonald's Pakistan", which is presumably why this news has been so carefully been kept confidential in the last regime. But the present government has also not taken any measurement except for the statements.

Lahore corporation has taken few specimens of the meat from one of the branches of McDonald's for laboratory tests. At that time it was announced that the results would be declared directly following Eid, but results have still not been presented before public. It is interesting to note that there is no facility for the diagnosis of this disease available in any of Pakistan's laboratory.

Every day thousands of people are eating burgers possibly tainted with "Mad Cow Disease" from Pakistan's "McDonald's" fast food chains, which imports the meat from South Africa. If this meat is not infected with the disease than why this issue is being suppressed ? Why are people are being pushed into the valley of death unknowingly? The government of Pakistan should completely probe into this matter and should take solid steps rather than giving vague statements. This is our request to higher authorities that the meat specimens take from MacDonald's branches should be sent to European laboratories for testing and the results should be presented to the public as soon as possible. All McDonald's branches in Pakistan should be closed temporarily before the results are made public, so that this and next generation could save from this dangerous disease.

Mr. Ali Chaudhry is the editor-in-chief and founder of UrduPoint Network.

What is Prion?

PRIONS

Prions are infectious proteinaceous particles or, more simply, proteins that lack nucleic acid. They were discovered by Stanley Prusiner, who received the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1997 for his work on them. Prions are biologically unique, existing somewhere in the border zone between living things and nonliving matter. Although they show none of the characteristics associated with life, such as the need to metabolize and the capacity to reproduce, they are in some manner capable of replication in the body of a human or certain other mammals.

Prions apparently gain entry to the body mainly by ingestion, or else in contaminated human growth hormone, or, possibly, in contaminated blood or blood products. They selectively attack the central nervous system, causing a relentless and progressive destruction of neural tissue, leaving in its place microscopic vesicular globules. The pathological name for this is spongiform encephalopathy. Conditions in this category, all of them invariably fatal, are all transmissible. They include kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, scrapie (a degenerative neural disease of sheep), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which appears to be acquired by ingesting beef contaminated by the prions that cause mad cow disease.

As of September 2000, it remains unknown what other mammalian species are vulnerable to prions; in research laboratories they have been shown to infect rodents and primates. It is possible that all domestic farm animals are at risk, though so far only sheep, beef and dairy cattle, and wild ungulates such as deer and elk have been confirmed as vulnerable. There is no vaccine or serum to protect against infection, and no agent that can arrest or retard the progress of the spongiform degeneration once it begins.

JOHN M. LAST

Early Mad Cow testing while dormant

ScienceDaily (Mar. 5, 2008) — In an advance in food safety, researchers in New York are reporting development of a nano-sized sensor that detects record low levels of the deadly prion proteins that cause Mad Cow Disease and other so-called prion diseases.

The sensor, which detects binding of prion proteins by detecting frequency changes of a micromechanical oscillator, could lead to a reliable blood test for prion diseases in both animals and humans, the researchers say.

Prions are infectious proteins that can cause deadly nerve-damaging diseases such as Mad Cow Disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep, and a human form of Mad Cow Disease called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Conventional tests are designed to detect the proteins only upon autopsy and the tests are time-consuming and unreliable.

In the new study, Harold G. Craighead and colleagues describe a high-tech, nano-sized device called a nanomechanical resonator array. The device includes a silicon sensor, which resembles a tiny tuning fork, that changes vibrational resonant frequency when prions bind. Its vibration patterns are then measured by a special detector. In experimental trials, the sensor detected prions at concentrations as low as 2 nanograms per milliliter, the smallest levels measured to date, the researchers say.

The article "Prion Protein Detection Using Nanomechanical Resonator Arrays and Secondary Mass Labeling" is scheduled for the April 1 issue of ACS' Analytical Chemistry.

Adapted from materials provided by American Chemical Society, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS..

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UNTANGLING THE DEADLY 'MAD COW' MYSTERY
International Herald Tribune
Barry James

Nobody knows how it started. Nobody knows how it will end. Nobody knows how many people eventually will die from it. Those are among the frightening mysteries scientists are discovering about "mad cow" disease, or BSE, the bovine form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.

The disease can arise out of nowhere and lie dormant for years, which the official British BSE Inquiry believes is how it started in England. Perhaps only one cow spontaneously developed the disease at first. To become an epidemic it needed an amplifier, which in Britain was the practice of feeding grazing animals the ground-up remains of others of their species.

In Europe, 91 people are known to have contracted variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, the fatal neurodegenerative affliction that humans can develop when exposed to infected meat. Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, which leads to dementia and eventually leaves the brain pitted with holes and resembling a sponge, was first identified independently by two German doctors in the 1920s, but until recently it was a condition of the elderly. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease also attacks younger people, some of them in their teens.

The human toll might seem small when compared with diseases like malaria, 0which kills millions of people every year. But the prospect of turning loose a stealthy, deadly and largely unknown pathogen is what most concerns scientists across Europe. The mad cow scare has touched off a panicky reaction against eating beef, but the worrisome fact is that many people already may be infected, perhaps because proteins known as prions that had somehow become aberrant were lurking in their baby food or hamburger many years ago.

The danger to humanity, scientists say, is that the general level of potential infection will rise, making it easier for the disease to emerge in future generations. This threat is illustrated by the speed at which bovine spongiform encephalopathy amplified among cattle in Britain in just a few years. There have now been more than 180,000 cases, with many others doubtlessly undiscovered among the 4.8 million cows culled and destroyed since 1996 in an attempt to check the disease. An article in the science journal Nature estimated that 975,000 infected cows entered the food supply.

Here is a chilling catalogue, drawn from two dozen interviews with experts and a review of scores of scientific documents, including Britain's recent 16-volume official BSE report, which illustrates why scientists are so concerned about BSE and related spongiform diseases that can affect most species of mammals and birds:

The pathogen that wipes out memory, personality and physical functions is extraordinarily tenacious. It resists heat, alcohol, boiling, ultraviolet light and ionizing radiation. Surgical instruments that come in contact with it can remain contaminated after normal sterilization procedures, and researchers don body protection before handling it.

The pathogen can survive years of being buried in the soil, which is worrisome given that cattle remains often end up in landfills. Iceland in the 1950s slaughtered all its sheep to eliminate a related disease called scrapie. When it brought in healthy animals, scrapie soon reappeared. Some scientists believe that scrapie can mask low levels of BSE in sheep.

While they take time to emerge, perhaps over many decades in humans, the spongiform diseases are highly infectious. According to British scientists, a cow can get BSE by eating one gram of infected material - a speck the size of a peppercorn - from another cow. Even a minute trace of the material in meat and bone meal, the protein supplement produced from rendered animal remains, can infect a cow.

The European Union's Standing Scientific Committee says that "the minimal infective dose considered to be valid for animals should also be applied for humans." Nobody knows what a minimal dose is, but British scientists discovered that a piece of wire that had been in contact with the pathogen for five minutes became as infectious as a solution made from infected brain.

Although the spongiform diseases are most infectious among members of the same species, they can jump the barrier to other species with varying levels of ease. Much has still to be learned about this species barrier, particularly so far as humans are concerned. Scrapie, for example, is believed not to infect humans. But in the United States, doctors identified several cases of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease among people who had eaten squirrel brains, and scientists warn that a spongiform encephalopathy called chronic wasting disease, found among deer and elk in the United States, is another potential threat to humans.

Once the pathogen has adapted to a new species, it can infect other members of that species with a much lower dose. In zoos, the pathogen has caused an outbreak of spongiform diseases among primates, big cats, antelope and other species, through the feeding of infected material. One study last year identified 82 cases in zoos. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy can be experimentally provoked in sheep, and domestic cats have acquired a similar encephalopathy from pet food. A 12-year old lion in the Newquay zoo in England was put down recently and found to be suffering from a form of transmissible encephalopathy.

The spongiform encephalopathies are surreptitious. An animal can harbor a spongiform disease and show no symptoms. Mice infected with hamster prions remain apparently healthy throughout their normal life span, but in fact become highly infectious. Cattle are believed to be infectious at an early stage of incubation as the disease spreads through the central nervous system toward the brain, the most lethal tissue of all. Because the incubation period in cows is thought to be longer than three years, the European Union this week decided to destroy cattle for market older than 30 months unless tested after slaughter and found to be free of BSE.

The possibility that an animal can be infectious and show no symptoms raises the question whether people can as well. Scientists fear, for example, that a patient with undetected Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease who was undergoing surgery treatment for another disease might pass it along through surgical instruments. Since nobody knows the average incubation period in man, blood transfusion services in several countries, including the United States and Canada, are turning away donors who have lived in Britain although it is not certain that the defective prions can be passed on through blood.

When the mad cow epidemic emerged in Britain in the 1980s, Stanley Prusiner, a U.S. neurologist and Nobel laureate, had already published his findings that the spongy condition of victims' brains was caused by "proteinaceous infectious particles," or prions. Proteins are the body's primary component and the basis of all enzyme reactions. As they are produced, they fold or coil three-dimensionally.

The agent that causes spongiform disease is a protein that has folded wrongly, and which is able to pass this defect to normal proteins. Because the defective prions resist breakdown by enzymes, they build up within nerve cells and eventually the brain.

The Prion Principle
It is as though bricks told an architect how to build a house. Kurt Vonnegut described the prion principle in his novel "Cat's Cradle," in which a crystal of Ice-IX "taught the atoms the novel way in which to stack, lock and crystallize" until the oceans turned to ice. Unlike viruses, proteins contain no genetic material and therefore provoke no immune response. This is why it is so difficult to detect prion disease in a living being. A brain or tonsil biopsy might find Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a human, for example, but only if doctors examine an infected part.

The defective proteins survive the rendering process that turns an animal's carcass into industrial fats and gelatin on the one hand, and meat and bone meal on the other. The meal is an effective and cheap protein that helps animals grow and produce milk. When it became apparent that turning herbivores into carnivores was the likely cause of BSE, Britain forbade feeding ruminant meat and bone meal to cattle in 1988, but continued to export the material, thus spreading the disease to other countries.

Scientists consider the inexpensive meat that comes from old dairy cows to be the most dangerous. It is pooled in beef patties, meat pies and pasta fillings; meat from as many as 60 animals may go into a hamburger mix. Some of the cheapest meat is stripped by machines and high- pressure jets from the bone, which is likely to be highly infectious in a sick cow. Each cow provides about seven kilograms (15 pounds) of machine-recovered meat that is incorporated into five- to seven-ton batches of material. The EU's standing scientific committee estimated that each batch contains meat from about 1,000 animals, any one of which could infect the whole, and expose as many as 400,000 persons to the agent. Even the most dedicated vegetarian cannot avoid cattle products, which enter a vast range of goods from cigarette filters to soap. Tallow made from animal fat is used in everyday objects from carpets to television sets. In general, only between one-third and a half of the animal is eaten. "The real market is in the by-products," said Paola Colombo, an EU Commission official.

Ballanchine Was a Victim
"Cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, Gucci handbags - that's animal waste." People daub their faces with anti-aging creams made from lightly processed bovine materials, an undefined danger indeed, but the choreographer George Ballanchine died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease after using a bovine glandular product to preserve his youthful looks.

The first French victim of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was a body-builder who used a muscle-boosting preparation of the kind still sold virtually unregulated in health food stores in the United States. One contains "freeze dried bovine brain, spleen, pituitary glands and eye tissue," said Michael Hansen, a microbiologist with the U.S. Consumers' Union. "It's almost a cow in a pill."

Questionable cattle products have gone into baby food, pet chow, beauty preparations and vaccines. Only last month, Britain withdrew supplies of polio vaccine after discovering that they were cultivated from British bovine serum produced when mad cow disease was at its height. Eleven million children and travelers have received the oral vaccine. Vaccines against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria and whooping cough also were made from British-sourced bovine material until at least 1993.

The government said the risk of contracting variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from vaccine was "incalculably small," but this is not what was said by the author of the first major British mad cow investigation, Sir Richard Southwood. He warned in an internal memorandum that the danger of infection from vaccines was "moderately high." He recommended that the removal of bovine material from vaccines should be a priority area for action.

If the number of people who have been exposed to and perhaps even infected by prions is unknown and unknowable, the number of people likely to die will become known only with time. The victims will suffer from insomnia, memory loss, depression, anxiety, withdrawal and fearfulness, and eventually loss of coordination, incontinence and blindness. Estimates of eventual deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease range from "several dozen" by the French health secretary, Dominique Gillot, to 250,000 in a recent British government study.

"We might be seeing an epidemic that involves hundreds of thousands of people," said John Collinge of Britain's advisory committee on spongiform encephalopathies. "Let's hope that is not the case, but it's still possible. We need to guard against false optimism and wishful thinking, which has bedeviled this field for too long."

John Kent, a professor of statistics at Leeds University who has tried to quantify the crisis, said that the mathematical models were not to be trusted because scientists do not know how much is an infectious dose and do not know how many people ate infected meat. "Those are two really big variables," he said. "All we can do is to set out a range of possibilities."

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Mad Cow Disease Hits North America
It’s Mad to Eat Meat

If you eat meat, you already have to worry about salmonella, E. coli, campylobacter, heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure, and cancer, as well as your weight. Now add mad cow disease to the list. The Canadian government has announced that a cow slaughtered in January in Alberta was infected with mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).

This cow was 8 years old, but if she, like most Canadian cows, had been killed before age 2, we would never have known that she had mad cow disease. Since cows are so young when killed, and pigs and chickens are even younger, it’s possible that other animals also have spongy brain disease, but it has not been discovered because animals are slaughtered before they become symptomatic. Why gamble? The best thing that anyone can do for their health and for animals is to adopt a vegetarian diet.

What Is Mad Cow Disease?

BSE is caused by malformed proteins called prions. Researchers have traced the disease to farmers’ cost-cutting practice of mixing bits of dead sheep’s neural tissue into the feed of cattle, who are naturally herbivorous. If cattle eat the brains of cattle who already have BSE, or of sheep suffering from a sheep disease called scrapie, the cattle can develop mad cow disease. When people eat the infected cattle, they could develop the human version of the disease, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD). Millions of cattle suspected of being infected with BSE in England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Belgium, Italy, and other countries have been slaughtered.

Whether it strikes cattle or people, mad cow disease is always fatal. The disease eats holes in the brain. In humans, it initially causes memory loss and erratic behavior, and over a period of months, its victims gradually lose all ability to care for themselves or communicate, and eventually, they die.

Is Mad Cow in U.S. Cattle?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says no but admits that it tested fewer than 20,000 cattle for BSE last year—a statistically insignificant percentage of the more than 37 million cattle slaughtered. Most cattle are slaughtered before their second birthday and are too young to show symptoms even though the disease may be present in their tissue.

pile of dead pigs The dangerous practice of feeding sheep and even cattle to other cattle was not banned in the U.S. and Canada until 1997, and the U.S. government said that as recently as 2001, there was widespread violation of the feeding regulation. It is still legal to feed sheep and cattle to pigs and chickens, and pigs and chickens to one another (and cattle) as well, even though these practices have been banned in Europe and no one can be sure if this may prove deadly in the future as well.

Other forms of brain encephalopathies have been found in North America. Two years ago, 200 dairy sheep from a Vermont farm were killed on suspicion that they were infected with their species’ equivalent of mad cow disease. Chronic wasting disease, a similar condition, is widespread in deer and elk in Western Canada and the U.S. and is suspected of infecting hunters who may have eaten meat from sick animals.