Britain confirms cases of human version of mad cow disease (fwd)

[Betty Martini <betty@noel.pd.org>]

*****************************************************************************
To get more information on aspartame, email betty@pd.org as follows:
Subject: sendme help   
The subject line must be typed exactly like the above line.
Betty Martini             1.  Take the 60-day No-Aspartame test
Mission Possible                 and send us your case history.
5950-H State Bridge Rd    2.  Tell your doctor and your friends.
Suite 215                 3.  Return Aspar-Poisoned foods to the store. 
Duluth GA  30155  USA     (Nutrasweet(tm), Equal(tm), Spoonful(tm), etc)

Visit http://www.dorway.com with links to more than 25 other Web Sites

We are dedicated to the proposition that we will not be satisfied until death 
and disability are no longer considered an acceptable cost of business.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 19:10:20 -0800
From: Kay Ness <kness@avana.net>
To: betty@noel.pd.org
Cc: hwysong@mindspring.com, bornfree@avana.net
Subject: Britain confirms cases of human version of mad cow disease

Britain confirms cases of human version of
mad cow disease


Copyright © 1997 Nando.net
Copyright © 1997 Reuter Information Service 

LONDON (Mar 3, 1997 08:43 a.m. EST) - The British government Monday 
confirmed that 16
people either had or were suspected of having the human version of mad 
cow disease.

In its regular update on cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the 
health department said there
were 13 confirmed cases of the new variant of CJD and three suspected 
cases.

The brain-wasting CJD occurs regularly in the population, affecting about 
one in a million. It is
always fatal.

A new variant was identified last year and government scientists said a 
likely source was eating beef
products infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow 
disease).

The figures, put togther by the National CJD Surveillance Unit, indicate 
a total of 127 cases of CJD
in Britain last year.

"In definite cases the diagnosis will have been pathologically confirmed, 
in most cases by
postmortem examination of brain tissue (rarely it may be possible to 
establish a definite diagnosis by
brain biopsy while the patient is still alive)," the health department 
statement said.

"Probable cases have not been confirmed pathologically; some cases are 
never confirmed
pathologically because a postmortem examination does not take place (for 
instance where the
relatives of the patient refuse consent) and these cases remain 
permanently in the probable
category."

In addition to the British cases there has been one confirmed case of new 
variant CJD in France.



---

• Prev by Date: Monsanto Goes Green?
• Next by Date: Poll: Americans Oppose Human & Animal Cloning
• Index(es):
  • Main
  • Thread

  Genetech pages