Gummer murders family friend Elizabeth Smith 23 of vCJD

[flounder]

October 11, 2007

Gummer family friend dies of human form of 'mad cow' disease

in 1990 John Gummer encouraged his four-year-old daughter, Cordelia, to eat
a burger to show that beef was safe

Times Online and agencies
A family friend of John Gummer, the former Agriculture Minister who in 1990
tried to show that beef was safe by encouraging his 4-year-old child to eat
a hamburger in front of the cameras, has died from the human form of "mad
cow" disease.

Elizabeth Smith, 23, a student from St Margaret South Elmham, Suffolk, died
from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) on October 4, three years
after becoming ill.

Her father, Roger Smith, a retired vicar, said today that his own daughter
had rarely eaten burgers as a child and had enjoyed a normal, healthy diet.

“I think her [Elizabeth’s] average consumption of burgers was probably about
1 per cent of the national average,” Mr Smith said.

“If you live in the depths of the countryside, like Elizabeth did, there
aren’t burger bars everywhere so she hardly ate any.

“It may be nothing to do with beef burgers. If people knew precisely where
the disease came from they would be able to stop it.”

Mr Smith said Mr Gummer, who encouraged his daughter Cordelia to eat a
burger in front of TV cameras in 1990 in order to demonstrate that humans
were at no danger from mad cow disease, was a personal friend.

“John, not for the only time in his life, was unfairly treated by the
press,” Mr Smith said.

“It was a load of old cobblers. It didn’t change the way I viewed meat. It
changed the way I viewed the press.”

Mr Smith said his daughter was first diagnosed with vCJD in 2005.

He said Miss Smith, who was reading geography at Birmingham University,
needed round-the-clock care as the disease took hold.

“She first became ill in August 2004 but it wasn’t diagnosed for another
seven months. She was able to stay at university until March 2005,” he said.


"It took so long to get diagnosed because the symptoms are so vague - it
could have been various other things in the early stages. There is no blood
test and no 100 per cent certain test until after death.

“Initially the symptoms can be confused with depression. Elizabeth wasn’t
depressed but she had numbness in her face and we thought it was MS
(multiple sclerosis).

“Then she started having short-term memory loss but because her brain was
young she was able to compensate, which is why she was able to carry on at
university.

“However, by the time she came home she found that she had trouble
swallowing and then couldn’t swallow at all so for the last two-and-a-half
years she was fitted with a gastro-tube.

“After that the disease was remorseless in the way that it killed her off.

“By August 2005 she was a very, very sick person. She was unable to walk for
the last two years of her life and couldn’t speak or smile.

“She had to be cared for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. She was more
helpless for those last two years than when she was born - at least then she
could move her arms and cry but by the end she couldn’t even do that.”

Mr Smith said his daughter began a degree course in 2002 after gaining
A-Levels in biology, English, geography and chemistry at Leiston High School
in Leiston, Suffolk.

His wife Molly said: “Elizabeth was clever, bright and intelligent. If she
had been able to do her final exams she would have got a very good degree.

“She wanted to do primary school teaching and had a place on a post-graduate
training course at Birmingham - she actually passed that interview when she
was three or four months into the disease.

“She had a very active life and loved being outdoors. She was good at sports
and enjoyed running, while she also liked to visit Minsmere bird reserve.”

Mr Smith, vicar of Mendham and Metfield in Suffolk from 1978 until 1991,
said: “We don’t want to scare people because it is an extremely rare
disease. Not everyone is going to die from it.

“In fact I would tell people to worry more about their driving than getting
CJD.”

He said his daughter’s funeral would take place at the Parish Church of St
John the Baptist, Metfield, tomorrow.

Mr and Mrs Smith also have a son, Andrew, 39.


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... 639215.ece

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/u ... &offset=12


gummer and all these other political bozo's should be put in prison for what
i call 'industrial and political poisoning',
with bush right along side of him for his BSE MRR policy, the legal trading
of all strains of TSE globally. like i said before ;


BOTTOM LINE ;



(Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 23 May 2006)

11. Information published by the OIE is derived from appropriate
declarations made by the official Veterinary Services of Member Countries.
The OIE is not responsible for inaccurate publication of country disease
status based on inaccurate information or changes in epidemiological status
or other
significant events that were not promptly reported to then Central
Bureau............

http://www.oie.int/eng/Session2007/RF2006.pdf






----- Original Message -----
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
To: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:44 PM
Subject: BSE; MRR; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived from
Bovines Commodities


Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 9:12 PM
Subject: BSE; MRR; IMPORTATION OF LIVE BOVINES AND PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM
BOVINES [Docket No. APHIS-2006-0041] RIN 0579-AC01 COMMENT SUBMISSION


----- Original Message -----
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
To: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 3:27 PM
Subject: BSE; MRR; Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived from
Bovines Commodities





http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.ex ... =0&P=19960







Docket Title Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; Minimal-Risk Regions;
Importation of Live Bovines and Products Derived from Bovines Commodities
Docket Type RULE
Document ID APHIS-2006-0041-0397




COMMENT FROM TERRY S. SINGELTARY SR. 1/09/2007


snip...



MY personal belief, since you ask, is that not only the Canadian border, but
the
USA border, and the Mexican border should be sealed up tighter than a drum
for
exporting there TSE tainted products, until a validated, 100% sensitive test
is
available, and all animals for human and animal consumption are tested. all
we are
doing is the exact same thing the UK did with there mad cow poisoning when
they
exported it all over the globe, all the while knowing what they were doing.
this BSE
MRR policy is nothing more than a legal tool to do just exactly what the UK
did,
thanks to the OIE and GW, it's legal now. and they executed Saddam for
poisoning ???

go figure....


Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518


see full text ;


http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/C ... ype=crtext



ATTACHMENT TO SINGELTARY COMMENT 1/09/2007


http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/C ... tType=msw8



England worried briefly about infecting other countries
27 Aug 00 confidential correspondence obtained by Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
http://www.mad-cow.org/00/aug00_last_news.html#fff



Sun, 3 Sep 2000. Unpublished Inquiry documents obtained by CJD activist
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. of Bacliff, Texas



http://www.mad-cow.org/00/sep00_news.html#hhh



Other US BSE risks: the imported products picture
24 Jul 00 Trade Statistics: UK to US
Compiled by Terry S.Singeltary Sr of Bacliff, Texas

http://www.mad-cow.org/00/jul00_dont_eat_sheep.html#hhh


http://www.mad-cow.org/00/may00_news.html


http://www.mad-cow.org/00/may00_news.html#aaa


http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.ex ... mg&P=21108



Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
still disgusted in Sunny Baycliff, Texas

 

[flounder]

So what does some british lass that ate contaminated beef have to do with us? The cases here are few and far between and nothing like they are in the UK.

Ignorance is Bliss isn't it.......


PLEASE NOTE IN USA CJD UPDATE AS AT JUNE 2007, please note steady increase
in ''TYPE UNKNOWN''. ...TSS


1 Acquired in the United Kingdom; 2 Acquired in Saudi Arabia; 3 Includes 17
inconclusive and 9 pending (1 from 2006, 8
from 2007); 4 Includes 17 non-vCJD type unknown (2 from 1996, 2 from 1997, 1
from 2001, 1 from 2003, 4 from 2004, 3
from 2005, 4 from 2006) and 36 type pending (2 from 2005, 8 from 2006, *** 26 from 2007)

http://www.cjdsurveillance.com/pdf/case-table.pdf


FC5.5.1
BASE Transmitted to Primates and MV2 sCJD Subtype Share PrP27-30 and PrPSc
C-terminal Truncated Fragments

We here show that the PrPSc pattern obtained in infected primates is
identical to BASE
and sCJD MV-2 subtype. These data strongly support the link, or at least a
common
ancestry, between a sCJD subtype and BASE.

This work was supported by Neuroprion (FOOD-CT-2004-506579)

FC5.5.2
Transmission of Italian BSE and BASE Isolates in Cattle Results into a
Typical BSE Phenotype and a Muscle Wasting Disease

This study further confirms that BASE is caused by a distinct prion isolate
and discloses a novel disease
phenotype in cattle, closely resembling the phenotype previous reported in
scrapie-inoculated
cattle and in some subtypes of inherited and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease.


http://www.prion2007.com/pdf/Prion%20Bo ... tracts.pdf


ABSTRACTS SPORADIC CJD AND H BASE MAD COW ALABAMA AND TEXAS SEPTEMBER 2007

Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:31:55 -0500

I suggest that you all read the data out about h-BASE and sporadic CJD, GSS,
blood, and some of the other abstracts from the PRION2007. ...

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.ex ... S=&P=19744


*** PLEASE READ AND UNDERSTAND THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS !!! THE PRICE OF
POKER INDEED GOES UP. ...TSS

USA BASE CASE, (ATYPICAL BSE), AND OR TSE (whatever they are calling it
today), please note that both the ALABAMA COW, AND THE TEXAS COW, both were
''H-TYPE'', personal communication Detwiler et al Wednesday, August 22, 2007
11:52 PM. ...TSS

http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.ex ... =0&P=19779



tss

 

[hillsdown]

Terry have you heard anything through the "grape vine" as to when our governments are going to let us use the new live tests on our cattle for BSE?

 

[Oldtimer]

Terry have you heard anything through the "grape vine" as to when our governments are going to let us use the new live tests on our cattle for BSE?

Ain't gonna happen-- not as long as the Packers and their bought out buddies like the NCBA/AMI control the USDA...

Just like the FDA/USDA refuses to do any testing of imports from China and the rest of the world-- they don't want us to know...

Just like the E. coli in the huge US meat recall- that Topps is getting all the blame for-probably came from another source besides Topps...And it is appearing as tho this is a completely unique source to the US- which leans toward it being from imported product....
But the USDA/FDA will never tell us the truth on it- in fact will help conceal the facts in order to protect the big Packers/Importers....

Another fact of interest is USDA’s Food Service and Inspection Service investigation of September’s 21.7 million-pound Topps Meat Co. recall, which is the second-largest meat recall in U.S. history and which has forced Topps, a New Jersey processor, out of business, revealed three distinct DNA patterns in the E. coli recovered from people who consumed the Topps product – and neither FSIS nor CDC had any of these patterns in their databases.

 

[flounder]

Terry have you heard anything through the "grape vine" as to when our governments are going to let us use the new live tests on our cattle for BSE?

hello there HD.

i must agree with OT. it aint gonna happen. the USDA will never allow 100% testing with any validated test, even if it's 101% accurate, not for BSE/h-BASE/l-BASE or any other strain of mad cow TSE in the USA. they have systematically covered up any and all cases.

come on folks, do you actually believe the only cases of mad cow disease in the USA was the case in Washington that maddave capped, or the Alabama h-BASE case, or Two for tuesday in Texas (they did manage to cover one of those case up, and almost the other, except for the Honorable Phyllis Fong, which was h-BASE as well). even by there own bogus theory of 1-3 per million spontaneouslly (which has never been proven), where are they at ??? i will tell you where, they call it The Triple SSS policy.

with all my heart, i believe this is the most corrupt administration the USA has ever seen, and will go down in history as such. ...tss

 

[Oldtimer]

with all my heart, i believe this is the most corrupt administration the USA has ever seen, and will go down in history as such. ...tss

There I will agree with you terry--and the Administration/USDA/FDA are so corrupt and controlled by the massive multinational monopoly of the corporate world that they are allowing Upton Sinclairs Jungle to repeat itself-- complete with immigrant workers (Mexicans and Latinos instead of Irish and Europeans) and diseased food products again.....

And the sad news is there is no "Teddy Roosevelt" on the horizon to change any of it this time around...