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In reply to the discussion: COW WITH MAD-COW DISEASE CONFIRMED IN CALIFORNIA, USDA SAYS [View all]Smilo
(1,944 posts)20. I wonder if this could be connected.......
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/coverup011005.cfm
Possible Cover Up of Human Mad Cow Disease in California
-- Public health officials have ruled out the human version of mad cow disease as the cause of death for a California man, but the man's neurologist told United Press International the man had several symptoms of the fatal disease and questions remain about the case.
Patrick Hicks, 49, died late last year at Reche Canyon Health Care Center in Colton, Calif., as first reported by UPI in November. Upon Hicks' death, Dr. Ron Bailey, a neurologist at Riverside Medical Center in Riverside, Calif., who treated him, arranged for a sample of his brain to be sent to the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center in Cleveland. NPDPSC is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to analyze brain specimens for possible variant Creutztfeldt Jakob disease, a fatal condition humans can contract from eating beef
products infected with the mad cow pathogen.
"Clinically, the case did look like it was variant CJD -- no question about that," Bailey told UPI.
Possible Cover Up of Human Mad Cow Disease in California
-- Public health officials have ruled out the human version of mad cow disease as the cause of death for a California man, but the man's neurologist told United Press International the man had several symptoms of the fatal disease and questions remain about the case.
Patrick Hicks, 49, died late last year at Reche Canyon Health Care Center in Colton, Calif., as first reported by UPI in November. Upon Hicks' death, Dr. Ron Bailey, a neurologist at Riverside Medical Center in Riverside, Calif., who treated him, arranged for a sample of his brain to be sent to the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center in Cleveland. NPDPSC is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to analyze brain specimens for possible variant Creutztfeldt Jakob disease, a fatal condition humans can contract from eating beef
products infected with the mad cow pathogen.
"Clinically, the case did look like it was variant CJD -- no question about that," Bailey told UPI.
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Oh, it's in Hanford? NOT SURPRISED, THEN. I lived in Merced County for 5 years...
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#40
I hope that more is reported because this isn't too informative at all. I live in northern
Ecumenist
Apr 2012
#10
Wow, damn. No media coverage of that nationally. Corporations won't allow it.
freshwest
Apr 2012
#14
I think there was surveillance program for classic and variant CJD run by Case Western U and CDC
HereSince1628
Apr 2012
#48
I agree with your comment about the inspectors above, and I know the system worked to catch this
Kali
Apr 2012
#47
The freaking out over this makes me think of a chapter from Thinking Fast and Slow
ag_dude
Apr 2012
#39
I agree..cancer could be cured if there weren't so much money to be made 'curing' it
angstlessk
May 2012
#73