Is Beef B.S.E,s scapegoat.

[frenchie]

Just pulled this off Farms.com

How can this be?
Saudi May Have CJD - 2/6/2004



JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) - Saudi medical authorities believe a man hospitalized
last month and now in a coma is suffering from the kingdom's first case of
the human form of mad cow disease.
Official medical records shown to The Associated Press on Friday by the
patient's family said test findings a day after Abdul Karim Eskandar was admitted
to the hospital "were suggestive of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease."
Abdul Karim Eskandar, 64, was admitted to Jiddah's King Faisal Specialist
Hospital Jan. 20, and lost his memory, eyesight and speech before falling
into a coma.
It was not clear how the Quran teacher had contracted the disease, since
he had never eaten beef, according to his son, Abdul Moneim Abdul Karim.

 

[CKC1586]

Didn't I read somewhere that they found BSE in a goat? Was it in France? Do Saudis eat goat??

 

[Jake]

Arabs eat tons of goats... part of some religious feasts...

 

[TheBullLady]

Or sheep? Scrapie.. isn't that the sheep form of BSE? Or am I thinking of foot and mouth. Hmm... :roll:

 

[frenchie]

The thing that concerns me is that beef is getting a bad rap again, never mind the fact that this was classic CJD ,not the variant .

Thankfully it is known that the individual never ate beef,could it be caused by eating goat?perhaps

perhaps not..