New form of mad cow discovered

[dArKeR]

Washington — Italian scientists have found a second form of mad-cow disease that more closely resembles the human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease than the usual cow form of the illness.


The brain-wasting diseases bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, known as mad cow disease) and human CJD are caused by different forms of mutant proteins called prions. A number of people, mainly in England, have also suffered from what is called variant CJD, a brain disease believed to be acquired by eating meat from infected cows. No North Americans have been reported with variant CJD.


Now, the team of Italian researchers reports a study of eight cows with mad-cow disease found that two of them had brain damage resembling the human victims of CJD. They said the cows were infected with prions that resembled those involved in the standard form of the human disease, called sporadic CJD, not the variant caused by eating infected meat.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20040216.wcoww0216/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/

I thought this was something about a disease that strikes Repuke pResidents.

[abracadabra]

1. anybody seen this?

http://www.davelouthan.org/

My name is Dave Louthan. I'm the guy who killed that mad cow. I'm also the guy who has been beating the hell out of the USDA from a hundred different directions at once. I told those D.C. big shots that day I was not going to be part of any kind of gov't cover-up.

We are talking about people's dinner here. People's lives. I don't care how much money Big Beef loses. I want to enjoy my food not sit there wondering is this meat going to kill me? Is it going to kill my kids? That's a bunch of crap. It's not necessary. All those greedy yahoos have to do is start testing all the beef for BSE. Not some of the beef, all the beef. You can bet dollars to donuts that beef Ann Veneman had for Christmas was tested.

http://www.davelouthan.org/

[UpInArms]

2. here's another article regarding Mr Louthan

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/03/health/03COW.html

Man Who Killed the Mad Cow Has Questions of His Own

By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

Published: February 3, 2004



Shooting a cow turned Dave Louthan into a crusader.

On Dec. 9, at Vern's Moses Lake Meats in Moses Lake, Wash., Mr. Louthan killed the only mad cow found in the United States.

Two weeks later, he says, he was dismissed after four years as Vern's slaughterer when he talked to the television crews outside and told them he was sure the cow, ground into hamburger, had already been eaten. The plant's owners did not return calls seeking comment.

...more...

[alittlelark]

3. This is really scary. I wish I had

some time right now to do some research. This guy sounds for real.

[undergroundpanther]

4. Good research here

Good site to start looking into Mad Cow.


http://www.unknownnews.net/madcow.html

[yellowcanine]

5. Someone is feeding humans to cows?

How else could a cow get human CJD?