Ally Bongo Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 (edited) 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 Edited July 16, 2019 by Ally Bongo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thplinth Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted July 16, 2019 Author Share Posted July 16, 2019 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] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phart Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 Totally ignorant of a lot of this, might be just a touch too young to mind the reports, i think i was still at school. Will need to give that documentary a look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapofGlencoe Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 (edited) 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. Edited July 16, 2019 by PapofGlencoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UpTheSlope Posted July 16, 2019 Share Posted July 16, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted July 17, 2019 Author Share Posted July 17, 2019 https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/rachel-21-loses-fight-against-2944957 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
euan2020 Posted July 31, 2019 Share Posted July 31, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ally Bongo Posted July 31, 2019 Author Share Posted July 31, 2019 (edited) 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/ Edited July 31, 2019 by Ally Bongo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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