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Did anyone else see this ?

I caught it last night but it was on a week or so ago

Another to be added to the list of Government cover ups with the Tories up to their necks in it

Was absolutely heartbreaking

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0006p49/mad-cow-disease-the-great-british-beef-scandal

 

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Funnily enough I was talking to a relative about 3 weeks ago now about the increase in levels of dementia in the UK and he brought this very subject up out of the blue (I had not thought about it in years) and asked would we now not be in the time zone when a lot of people infected would start dying of it. He was thinking this might be a (hushed up) reason for dementia increasing. I seem to recall at the time there was a long lag (decades) before this was all expected to come to 'fruition'... I also remember there was a lot of fear over mechanically recovered meat. i.e. when they put a skull for example in a centrifuge and spin it so fast all the gloop in it is forced out and that gets made in sausage rolls etc... remember the grey paste like meat you would find in a sausage roll in the mid 80's - that shit.  You hardly ever hear about all this now.

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It's frightening to think what's round the corner

The wee lassie from Liverpool was awful - showed videos of her at the pub with her pals, drinking, dancing and having a fag

Shortly after she was unable to walk and had uncontrolable twitching and speech slurring

The father told how he did not accept there was no cure and whisked her off to America to see some Doctor who had theories on possible cures

Amazingly it started to work and while she showed only mild improvement the progression of the disease seemed to be halted

Sadly the treatment was killing her liver and kidneys so the family decided to stop it

They brought her home and had a wee celebratory party and she died 3 days later

In 2008, UK scientists expressed concern over the possibility of a second wave of human cases due to the wide exposure and long incubation of some cases of vCJD.[40]

Researchers believe one in 2,000 people in the UK is a carrier of the disease linked to eating contaminated beef (vCJD).[42] The survey provides the most robust prevalence measure to date—and identifies abnormal prion protein across a wider age group than found previously and in all genotypes, indicating "infection" may be relatively common. This new study examined over 32,000 anonymous appendix samples. Of these, 16 samples were positive for abnormal prion protein, indicating an overall prevalence of 493 per million population, or one in 2,000 people are likely to be carriers. No difference was seen in different birth cohorts (1941–1960 and 1961–1985), in both sexes, and there was no apparent difference in abnormal prion prevalence in three broad geographical areas. Genetic testing of the 16 positive samples revealed a higher proportion of valine homozygous (VV) genotype on the codon 129 of the gene encoding the prion protein (PRNP) compared with the general UK population. This also differs from the 177 people with vCJD, all of whom to date have been methionine homozygous (MM) genotype. The concern is that individuals with this VV genotype may be susceptible to developing the condition over longer incubation periods.[43]

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saw it and forgot how bad it was..and still could be..

Didn't even know we can't give blood in other countries because of this.

What a scandal of greed.  Why they thought regurgitated meat and feeding the animals their own kind was okay is beyond belief.

 

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1 hour ago, Ally Bongo said:

The wee lassie from Liverpool was awful - showed videos of her at the pub with her pals, drinking, dancing and having a fag

Shortly after she was unable to walk and had uncontrolable twitching and speech slurring

That’s not uncommon if one spends time in a boozer

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14 hours ago, euan2020 said:

remember reading that woman dn kids in Papua New Guinea had CJD due to Cannibalism

which was due to men eating body, but women and kids eating the brain 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt–Jakob_disease

Kuru - At the peak of the UK vCJD crisis scientists studied Kuru and wondered if vCJD was similar to that disease.

They found that in a lot of this tribe Kuru took longer to develop and it was to do with an individual's genetic make up

They couldnt prove it but all of the victims at the UK peak had the same combination of M or V gene

That changed in 2008 and was then confirmed in 2014 when people of a different gene make up got it

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2118418-many-more-people-could-still-die-from-mad-cow-disease-in-the-uk/

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