Woman did not die from mad cow illness
Lincoln teacher had rare brain disease commonly mistaken for beef disease
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
By Jeff Nelson
OF GATEHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
LINCOLN - A Chester-East Lincoln teacher died from a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease that should not be confused with the human form of mad cow disease, health and animal experts say.
Tests performed by a lab in Columbus, Ohio, provided a diagnosis of "sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" for Connie Albert, 57, who died Saturday at her home in Lincoln.
The human form of mad cow disease is called "variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease."
The forms are in the same family of diseases; both attack the brain, and both are always fatal, say the authorities.
The distinction is so important the Illinois Department of Public Health issued a statement Tuesday saying "there are no confirmed or suspected cases of a type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Illinois commonly referred to as mad cow disease."
Earlier media reports indicated Albert died from a human form of mad cow disease.
The formal name for mad cow disease is "bovine spongiform encephalopathy," commonly referred to as BSE. People who eat beef having the disease may get the human form of the disease, or variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
In April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released an analysis of seven years of data that concluded BSE in the United States occurs in less than 1 case per million adult cattle.
Dr. William Shulaw, a veterinarian with The Ohio State University extension service, is involved in a nationwide program to eradicate scrapie, the form of BSE found in sheep.
Shulaw said the chances of a person getting sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is about one in a million. But that's the total population, infants, children, adults and the elderly. Chances increase to one in 9,000 when the group is restricted to those age 50 and older.
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. – Bacliff, Texas USA August 22, 2007 - 10:48
Subject: re-Woman did not die from mad cow illness
re-Woman did not die from mad cow illness
THIS is another myth about this disease.
FACT is, she very well could have died from the USA version of mad cow disease i.e. BASE, which pathologically is more like the sporadic CJD than nvCJD of the UK.
ALSO, the USA version of mad cow disease BASE is more virulent to humans than the UK BSE. Course they don't tell you this.
ALSO, what will 'friendly fire' iCJD, what will this look like pathologically from these atypical TSE on second, third, forth passage via the medical, surgical, blood, tissue, cosmetics etc ??? THE USA has the most documented TSE in the wild than any other country in the world. all of which have been rendered and fed back to food producing animals. a recipe for long-term disastor.
ALL these questions have not been answered yet, so to say that this unlucky soul simply died from a happen-stance of bad luck is not acceptable, and is not scientific. it's simply a bogus excuse myself and others are tired of hearing. ...
THESE are the facts ;
18 January 2007 - Draft minutes of the SEAC 95 meeting (426 KB) held on 7
December 2006 are now available.
snip...
64. A member noted that at the recent Neuroprion meeting, a study was
presented showing that in transgenic mice BSE passaged in sheep may be more
virulent and infectious to a wider range of species than bovine derived BSE.
Other work presented suggested that BSE and bovine amyloidotic spongiform
encephalopathy (BASE) MAY BE RELATED. A mutation had been identified in the
prion protein gene in an AMERICAN BASE CASE THAT WAS SIMILAR IN NATURE TO A
MUTATION FOUND IN CASES OF SPORADIC CJD.
snip...
http://www.seac.gov
3:30 Transmission of the Italian Atypical BSE (BASE) in Humanized Mouse
Models Qingzhong Kong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Case Western Reserve
University
Bovine Amyloid Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) is an atypical BSE strain
discovered recently in Italy, and similar or different atypical BSE cases
were also reported in other countries. The infectivity and phenotypes of
these atypical BSE strains in humans are unknown. In collaboration with
Pierluigi Gambetti, as well as Maria Caramelli and her co-workers, we have
inoculated transgenic mice expressing human prion protein with brain
homogenates from BASE or BSE infected cattle. Our data shows that about half
of the BASE-inoculated mice became infected with an average incubation time
of about 19 months; in contrast, none of the BSE-inoculated mice appear to
be infected after more than 2 years.
***These results indicate that BASE is transmissible to humans and suggest that BASE is more virulent than
classical BSE in humans.***
6:30 Close of Day One
http://www.healthtech.com
SEE STEADY INCREASE IN SPORADIC CJD IN THE USA FROM
1997 TO 2006. SPORADIC CJD CASES TRIPLED, with phenotype
of 'UNKNOWN' strain growing. ...
http://www.cjdsurveillance.com
There is a growing number of human CJD cases, and they were presented last
week in San Francisco by Luigi Gambatti(?) from his CJD surveillance
collection.
He estimates that it may be up to 14 or 15 persons which display selectively
SPRPSC and practically no detected RPRPSC proteins.
http://www.fda.gov
http://www.fda.gov
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: TWO MORE Nor98 atypical Scrapie cases detected in USA bringing
total to 3 cases to date
Infected and Source Flocks
As of June 30, 2007, there were .....
snip...
One field case and one validation case were consistent with Nor-98 scrapie.
http://www.aphis.usda.gov
IN the February 2007 Scrapie report it only mentions ;
''One case was consistent with Nor98 scrapie.''
http://www.aphis.usda.gov
(please note flocks of origin were in WY, CO, AND CA. PERSONAL COMMUNCATIONS
USDA, APHIS, VS ET AL. ...TSS)
NOR98 SHOWS MOLECULAR FEATURES REMINISCENT OF GSS
lists.ifas.ufl.edu
An evaluation of scrapie surveillance in the United States
lists.ifas.ufl.edu
FOIA REQUEST FOR ATYPICAL TSE INFORMATION ON VERMONT SHEEP
lists.ifas.ufl.edu
SEAC New forms of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 1 August 2007
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:09:38 -0500
lists.ifas.ufl.edu
POTENTIAL MAD CAT ESCAPES LAB IN USA
lists.ifas.ufl.edu
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/082207/RE ... H6.049.php
Lincoln teacher had rare brain disease commonly mistaken for beef disease
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
By Jeff Nelson
OF GATEHOUSE NEWS SERVICE
LINCOLN - A Chester-East Lincoln teacher died from a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease that should not be confused with the human form of mad cow disease, health and animal experts say.
Tests performed by a lab in Columbus, Ohio, provided a diagnosis of "sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" for Connie Albert, 57, who died Saturday at her home in Lincoln.
The human form of mad cow disease is called "variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease."
The forms are in the same family of diseases; both attack the brain, and both are always fatal, say the authorities.
The distinction is so important the Illinois Department of Public Health issued a statement Tuesday saying "there are no confirmed or suspected cases of a type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Illinois commonly referred to as mad cow disease."
Earlier media reports indicated Albert died from a human form of mad cow disease.
The formal name for mad cow disease is "bovine spongiform encephalopathy," commonly referred to as BSE. People who eat beef having the disease may get the human form of the disease, or variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
In April, the U.S. Department of Agriculture released an analysis of seven years of data that concluded BSE in the United States occurs in less than 1 case per million adult cattle.
Dr. William Shulaw, a veterinarian with The Ohio State University extension service, is involved in a nationwide program to eradicate scrapie, the form of BSE found in sheep.
Shulaw said the chances of a person getting sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is about one in a million. But that's the total population, infants, children, adults and the elderly. Chances increase to one in 9,000 when the group is restricted to those age 50 and older.
Terry S. Singeltary Sr. – Bacliff, Texas USA August 22, 2007 - 10:48
Subject: re-Woman did not die from mad cow illness
re-Woman did not die from mad cow illness
THIS is another myth about this disease.
FACT is, she very well could have died from the USA version of mad cow disease i.e. BASE, which pathologically is more like the sporadic CJD than nvCJD of the UK.
ALSO, the USA version of mad cow disease BASE is more virulent to humans than the UK BSE. Course they don't tell you this.
ALSO, what will 'friendly fire' iCJD, what will this look like pathologically from these atypical TSE on second, third, forth passage via the medical, surgical, blood, tissue, cosmetics etc ??? THE USA has the most documented TSE in the wild than any other country in the world. all of which have been rendered and fed back to food producing animals. a recipe for long-term disastor.
ALL these questions have not been answered yet, so to say that this unlucky soul simply died from a happen-stance of bad luck is not acceptable, and is not scientific. it's simply a bogus excuse myself and others are tired of hearing. ...
THESE are the facts ;
18 January 2007 - Draft minutes of the SEAC 95 meeting (426 KB) held on 7
December 2006 are now available.
snip...
64. A member noted that at the recent Neuroprion meeting, a study was
presented showing that in transgenic mice BSE passaged in sheep may be more
virulent and infectious to a wider range of species than bovine derived BSE.
Other work presented suggested that BSE and bovine amyloidotic spongiform
encephalopathy (BASE) MAY BE RELATED. A mutation had been identified in the
prion protein gene in an AMERICAN BASE CASE THAT WAS SIMILAR IN NATURE TO A
MUTATION FOUND IN CASES OF SPORADIC CJD.
snip...
http://www.seac.gov
3:30 Transmission of the Italian Atypical BSE (BASE) in Humanized Mouse
Models Qingzhong Kong, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Pathology, Case Western Reserve
University
Bovine Amyloid Spongiform Encephalopathy (BASE) is an atypical BSE strain
discovered recently in Italy, and similar or different atypical BSE cases
were also reported in other countries. The infectivity and phenotypes of
these atypical BSE strains in humans are unknown. In collaboration with
Pierluigi Gambetti, as well as Maria Caramelli and her co-workers, we have
inoculated transgenic mice expressing human prion protein with brain
homogenates from BASE or BSE infected cattle. Our data shows that about half
of the BASE-inoculated mice became infected with an average incubation time
of about 19 months; in contrast, none of the BSE-inoculated mice appear to
be infected after more than 2 years.
***These results indicate that BASE is transmissible to humans and suggest that BASE is more virulent than
classical BSE in humans.***
6:30 Close of Day One
http://www.healthtech.com
SEE STEADY INCREASE IN SPORADIC CJD IN THE USA FROM
1997 TO 2006. SPORADIC CJD CASES TRIPLED, with phenotype
of 'UNKNOWN' strain growing. ...
http://www.cjdsurveillance.com
There is a growing number of human CJD cases, and they were presented last
week in San Francisco by Luigi Gambatti(?) from his CJD surveillance
collection.
He estimates that it may be up to 14 or 15 persons which display selectively
SPRPSC and practically no detected RPRPSC proteins.
http://www.fda.gov
http://www.fda.gov
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:50 AM
Subject: TWO MORE Nor98 atypical Scrapie cases detected in USA bringing
total to 3 cases to date
Infected and Source Flocks
As of June 30, 2007, there were .....
snip...
One field case and one validation case were consistent with Nor-98 scrapie.
http://www.aphis.usda.gov
IN the February 2007 Scrapie report it only mentions ;
''One case was consistent with Nor98 scrapie.''
http://www.aphis.usda.gov
(please note flocks of origin were in WY, CO, AND CA. PERSONAL COMMUNCATIONS
USDA, APHIS, VS ET AL. ...TSS)
NOR98 SHOWS MOLECULAR FEATURES REMINISCENT OF GSS
lists.ifas.ufl.edu
An evaluation of scrapie surveillance in the United States
lists.ifas.ufl.edu
FOIA REQUEST FOR ATYPICAL TSE INFORMATION ON VERMONT SHEEP
lists.ifas.ufl.edu
SEAC New forms of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 1 August 2007
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 13:09:38 -0500
lists.ifas.ufl.edu
POTENTIAL MAD CAT ESCAPES LAB IN USA
lists.ifas.ufl.edu
Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/082207/RE ... H6.049.php
