The AP’s Lauran Neergaard reminded readers that no instance of the related human neurological disorder, Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, has ever been linked to US beef. Stressing that other food contaminants, such as salmonella and E. coli, sicken thousands every year, she wrote:
If the mad cow found in California has you wondering about food safety, well, there are plenty of problems that pose serious risks to the food supply. But mad cow disease shouldn’t be high on the worry list.
Likewise, an editorial in the Los Angeles Times began with the statement, “Mad cow disease has the power to terrify, but at this point, U.S. consumers have far more to fear from other sources of food poisoning.” It added, though, that “there’s still reason for concern about this country’s efforts to prevent mad cow.”
The San Jose Mercury News’s suggestion that the US “adopt additional protections against mad cow disease” was more forceful and its board pointed out that the UK and Japan have higher inspection standards. (Similarly, The Washington Post had a piece about the lack of mandatory livestock tracking in the US, which exists in other countries.)
Even primetime network news produced fairly levelheaded coverage of the BSE discovery, though ABC did play up the scare factor a bit. Diane Sawyer waited until the very end of the report to ask her correspondent, almost as an afterthought, whether there were any real safety concerns. CBS and Fox did much better, though, expressing concern while warding off needless worry.
The latest news is that the USDA tracked down one of the sick cow’s offspring, euthanized it, and sent a tissue sample for testing, which came back negative for BSE. The dairy that it came from and one other are under quarantine.
The media have exaggerated many public-health scares, to be sure, but not this time.
Acording to my opinion; what is the common denominator of the neurodegenerative diseases (mad cow disease…) , including Alzheimer's disease? This was 11 years ago ( March 2001), when I published (in Czech) an alternative theory ( BSE ammonia- magnesium theory), where the main role of NMDA receptors was described. In addition, in scientific literature there was described the effect of drugs, in Alzheimer's disease in humans, on the principle of control hyperfunction of NMDA receptors, which is consistent with my BSE alternative theory of BSE. See more about the Nameda; A medication known as Namenda® (memantine), an N-methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist, is prescribed to treat moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease (www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/publication/alzheimers-disease-medications-fact-sheet
I worked in the USA almost one year- West Virginia University (1991, Morgantown). There I obtained a lot of information from scientific journals (in former Czechoslovakia it was not possible), what I used to create an alternative theory of the origin and the spread of mad cow disease (BSE). Relevant findings I have published 11 years ago in Czech (March 2001) and in English (May 2002; Netherlands, International Journal "Feed Mix"; www.warmwell.com/lone_voices_in_the_bse_debate[1].pdf ). Later, in August 2006, I published own website, see; www.bse-expert.cz
Since then I pointed my website in the order of hundreds of magazines around the world, especially in the U.S.. See some of them, for example on Google; www.google.com/search?q=hlasny+bse+expert&hl=cs&lr=&start=0&sa=N&filter=0 . In 2008, I repeatedly visited the USA, it was about the occasion of my presentation in Vancouver, Canada (July 2008; 29th World Veterinary Congress; Neurodegenerative Diseases and Schizophrenia as a Hyper or Hypofunction of the NMDA Receptors (www.bse-expert.cz/pdf/Veter_kongres.pdf).
According to my theory, the origins of the neurodegenerative diseases may lie in chronic magnesium deficiency coupled with a high protein intake. So defective prions are markers of the diseases rather than the cause and BSE can be a naturally occurring disease, not an infectious disease. WHY?
Because, about the BSE/ vCJD diseases; this was never justified scientifically! It was pure, math-model-driven science fiction. But it was pushed very vigorously by the British science establishment, which has never confessed to its errors... See more about the; BSE/ vCJD mathematical- models, see recent large three comments (February 2010) in Telegraph.co.uk (www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7168326/Does-vCJD-still-pose-a-major-public-health-threat.html ).
However, well-known circumstances can be show (as a detective story); in documenting the first case of disease transmission, by blood transfusion. For more informations see my other large comments (January 12, 2011) in Western Star (www.thewesternstar.com/News/Canada%20-%20World/Business/1969-12-31/article-2095060/Womans-death-in-northern-Italy-is-nations-2nd-fatal-case-of-mad-cow-disease/1 ). At the present time I will complete my website to the final version, so it would be clear among other things, that mad cow disease has never been and is not an infectious disease. Among other things, there much contributed recent research about the Alzhemeir´s disease.
#1 Posted by hlasny, CJR on Thu 3 May 2012 at 04:13 PM
Let’s take out all the Artificial Colors and Flavors that are a danger to us all,
not to think about all the Dangerous Food Preservatives. The health risks that we
all pay should be enough to teach all Leaders to stop it. You want lower health
cost start with the number one cause of 90% of the problems chemical ingredients
drugs. Let our children eat good food not the man made chemical ingredients and
drugs found in many processed foods.
Take soda pop out of all schools and put back in Nutrition Whole Milk. 90% of all
the Olympic Athletes gold medalists drink Whole MILK.
i have been drinking half and half milk cream since 1964 and can brake three
2 by 4's in less than a second and a half. i have good strong bones thanks to milk
and GOD.
USA Leaders others countries started to put a end to chemical ingredients and drugs
a while ago what are we waiting for the Drug CEO's and Drug Cartels to approve it?
The Lord's Little Helper
Paul Felix Schott
Global Health Care Company Abbott Laboratories Inc. has pleaded guilty and agreed to pay $1.5 billion to resolve its criminal and civil liability arising from the company’s unlawful promotion of the prescription drug Depakote for uses not approved as safe and effective by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Justice Department announced today. The resolution – the second largest payment by a drug company – includes a criminal fine and forfeiture totaling $700 million and civil settlements with the federal government and the states totaling $800 million. Abbott also will be subject to court-supervised probation and reporting obligations for Abbott’s CEO and Board of Directors.
Abbott Labs to Pay $1.5 Billion to Resolve Criminal & Civil Investigations of Off-label Promotion of Depakote
05/07/2012 01:08 PM EDT
#2 Posted by Paul Felix Schott, CJR on Mon 7 May 2012 at 06:45 PM