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2003-05-22 Great White North

Chretien Eats Steak in Bid to Allay Mad Cow Fears

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Posted by tu3031 2003-05-22 09:03 am|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He has no fear of Mad Cow, it attacks the brain - he has so little brain tissue as to be immune by lack of infectable material.

Posted by OldSpook 2003-05-22 10:31:05|| 2003-05-22 10:31:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Saw a funny thing on TV the other day: it seems the US has a disease similar to SARS, it kills thousands of people every year, kills on contact, they won't let you on a plane with it, it's called G-U-N-S.
I'm not a gun-hater but I must admit this was funny. I live in Toronto and can say the SARS thing was way overblown. Thanks to the WHO we all feel like lepers. Even the CDC in Atlanta stayed cool about the whole thing.
The mad-cow thing is a different story. The latest is that the cow came from Saskatchewan. One farm has been quarantined.
As for Chretien, he is Canada's worst Prime Minister ever. 'Nuff said.

Posted by RW 2003-05-22 14:16:47|| 2003-05-22 14:16:47|| Front Page Top

#3 If it's a "nanny-state" liberal, then I like my liberals rare.

Posted by Sade 2003-05-22 14:53:55|| 2003-05-22 14:53:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Mad cow disease (BSE): three or four tests that reportedly are 100% error free, the longest taking two days. All tests require killing the animal.

The cause of BSE is unknown. There are two, unproven theories.

Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease is the human equivalent. Nearly all cases are genetic in origin. In England, there have been about 121 deaths in the last decade laid to CJDv, a variant that does not seem to be genetic, though sufferers have a genetic makeup that is similar and unique.

An unproven assumption has been made that these cases were caused by exposure to BSE, an exposure occurring 5-15 years prior. Over 100,000 cattle have been slaughtered. The latest reports suggest the potential for another 40 deaths before this situation ends in England.

It is proven that BSE cannot be transmitted in meat or milk. It is believed that any transmission occurs via the other organs, especially brain tissue (google kuru for fun facts on a related disease).

CJDv has no proven cause. There is no treatment and it is 100% fatal. A significant majority of the population appears to lack the genetic makeup found in sufferers of this disease, rendering them automaticly immune.

This is merely a media circus waiting to happen, and an economic disaster for farmers caught up in the frenzy.

Posted by Chuck 2003-05-22 15:07:24|| [blog.simmins.org] 2003-05-22 15:07:24|| Front Page Top

#5 There are many more cases of vCJD in which the origin or cause of the disease is suspected to be Lyodura, a medical implant used in surgeries in the '80s. It is made of processed dura mater from cadavers. Read about it here.

Posted by RW 2003-05-22 17:31:40|| 2003-05-22 17:31:40|| Front Page Top

#6 Saw a funny thing on TV the other day too, RW!:

Seems that Canada has spent about a billion dollars trying to keep track of all thier nasty dirty lethal G-U-N-S. It also seems that the project is $900M over budget and the software doesn't even work!

Saw something else funny, too! Seems that even though the US had almost as many cases of S-A-R-S as Canada, but no-one died! (Unlike the socialized medicine paradise to our north!)

Posted by Watcher 2003-05-22 23:50:05|| 2003-05-22 23:50:05|| Front Page Top

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