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"CJD had previously been encountered as a medical curiosity in such exotic milieu as the more isolated parts of Indonesia, where there was a long tradition of eating the brains of enemies slain in tribal warfare. The cjd that showed up in Europe presented slightly different and terrifying symptoms. With this variant disease, called vCJD, patients showed not just dementia but also extraordinary behavioral problems—wild rages, violence, screaming. Unlike previously-known cjd, which almost always appeared in victims over sixty years old, the new variant showed up in younger adults." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"The humans develop a disease similar to the TSE Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), called variant cjd (vCJD). Other human TSEs are kuru, Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome, and fatal familiar insomnia. All are rare but fatal. Rocky Mountain spotted fever Caused by the bacterium Rickettsia rickettsii and spread by ticks, Rocky Mountain spotted fever causes high fever, headache, fatigue, and a rash that spreads across most of the body. Approximately 1,000 cases are reported in the United States each year. If treated early with antibiotics, a patient usually recovers without serious problems." - The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.)

"Autopsy showed very similar spongy brain degeneration as had been found in BSE-infected cattle. cjd had previously been encountered as a medical curiosity in such exotic milieu as the more isolated parts of Indonesia, where there was a long tradition of eating the brains of enemies slain in tribal warfare. The cjd that showed up in Europe presented slightly different and terrifying symptoms. With this variant disease, called vCJD, patients showed not just dementia but also extraordinary behavioral problems—wild rages, violence, screaming." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"Manuelidis, MD, and Laura Manuelidis, MD, which identified that 5 percent of misdiagnosed dementia patients were actually dying from cjd.5 If these studies are accurate, what government action is being undertaken to see that the human meat supply is free from BSE? What steps are being taken by government agencies to insure that humans are not infected with cjd from eating contaminated meat? I can't help but wonder that if the U.S." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "In a similar survey of neuropathologists it was found that from 2 percent to 12 percent of all dementias in humans were actually cjd. This survey finding was corroborated by a 1989 University of Pennsylvania study by Elias E. Manuelidis, MD, and Laura Manuelidis, MD, which identified that 5 percent of misdiagnosed dementia patients were actually dying from cjd.5 If these studies are accurate, what government action is being undertaken to see that the human meat supply is free from BSE?" - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"The expected rate of occurrence of cjd (the human variation of Mad Cow disease) has been 1 in 1 million people. Up until the advent of Mad Cow disease, cjd was, literally, a "one-in-a-million" disease. Yet in one U.S. study, when people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease (whose symptoms can be difficult to distinguish from cjd) were examined after death, 5.5 percent of the presumed Alzheimer's victims were found actually to have cjd." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

"All TSEs are caused by prions, including cjd. Between 1990 and March 2002 nearly ninety house cats have died of the feline form of mad cow disease, which is called feline spongiform encephalopathy (FSE). The first cat identified as having FSE was a Siamese cat in the United Kingdom named Max who died in 1990. Some veterinarians suspect that many more cats have died since then, but these deaths have not been recorded because owners either do not have autopsies performed on their cats' brains or the cats wandered off to die alone. Autopsies are the only way to determine if a cat died from FSE." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "Instead, government officials maintain that the hunters died from a naturally occurring form of cjd. Beth Williams, DVM, PhD, a leading expert on CWD, advises hunters "to wear latex or rubber gloves when dressing harvested deer or elk, and washing up afterwards; avoid contact with brain and spinal cord; discard the head, spine, spleen, and lymph nodes."16 Mad Cow Disease in the United States and Canada In August 1997 the FDA issued a ban to prohibit the feeding of any mammalian protein to ruminant animals such as cows, sheep, and goats." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"CJD, and, from the stories I heard, doctors were discouraged from listing it on the death certificate. Mandatory reporting was one of the goals of the organizers of the conference. Shortly before lunch on the second day of the conference, I finally had an opportunity to speak with Dr. Mary Jo Schmerr. "You don't want me to test your sheep. I'm having problems with false positives and false negatives, and my procedure is not yet validated," she told me in a hushed voice, as her dark eyes searched the meeting room to see if anyone would overhear our conversation." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) "Is there an increase in cjd in those populations?" The family was gathered around our dining room table eating lamb chops, curried rice, and broccoli. The children looked up briefly from their dinner plates but then returned to their meal. They were unfazed by the conversation, now familiar with Larry and me talking about TSEs in graphic detail. "Are there any regions with a high incidence of scrapie where people still eat sheep brains?" I asked. "Well, I know the French do, and I think people in Iceland," he replied. A little research confirmed he was right." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) "Scrapie has been known about for hundreds of years, cjd was first diagnosed in the early 1900s, and CWD was discovered in Fort Collins, Colorado, in the late 1960s. So BSE was the "new kid" on the block. Because Prof had worked with sheep most of his professional life, he first taught me about scrapie. Scrapie received its nomenclature from one of its clinical signs: through excessive scraping and scratching the animal would lose its wool in large pieces." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.) "In December of 1996 scientists speculated there was a possible link between BSE and a new variant of cjd, the human TSE, and the USDA closed the doors on the importation of live animals from Europe in 1997. In May of 1997 our company, Ag-Innovations, gained international recognition when we were the first ever to import sheep semen into the United States from Britain. Requests for our brochure and video dramatically increased." - Linda Faillace, Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm (Get the book.)

"In 1996, ten people died in England due to a new strain of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD, the human equivalent of BSE), which the British government linked to eating meat from cows infected with BSE. cjd has now killed a total of 100 people in Britain.26 Researchers at Yale University suggest the disease is capable of mutating into different forms. They also speculate that CJD/BSE might be more widespread than originally thought. BSE first started showing up in England in the mid-eighties. In 1988, the government required that all cattle showing symptoms of BSE be destroyed." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Alzheimer's disease (whose symptoms can be difficult to distinguish from cjd) were examined after death, 5.5 percent of the presumed Alzheimer's victims were found actually to have cjd. 1 And in a study at Yale University, when people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease were examined after death it was found that 13 percent of the presumed Alzheimer's victims actually had cjd.72 Four million Americans are currently diagnosed with Alzheimer's." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

"In unusual situations cjd is spread through direct contact with infected brain tissue. For example, neurosurgeons have contracted cjd after operating on a patient with it. Similarly, a cornea transplant can carry the disease from the donor to the recipient (CJD also attacks eye tissue). Contracting the disease from injections with growth hormone, as Mary did, is no longer a danger. Since 1985, all human growth hormone used in the United States has been synthesized using sophisticated DNA techniques, thus eliminating the chance of infection through that route." - Guy McKhann, and Marilyn Albert, Keep Your Brain Young: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health and Longevity (Get the book.)

"James Ironside, a member of the British cjd Surveillance Unit, whose paper was published in The Lancet in 1997, believes that "a total number of cases over the whole course of the disease will be in the hundreds, rather than thousands." With considerable uncertainty persisting about the nature of both BSE and its link to vCJD in humans, it's worth noting that there has never been a case of BSE in an organically born and reared cow." - Patrick Holford, The New Optimum Nutrition Bible (Get the book.)

"Mr>-95() Scrapie-associated fibrils were found in fresh and frozen brains infected with cjd. • Research in Virology 1992:143(6):387-39r) Two British farmers who had "mad cows" in their herds died in 1995 of cjd. • Siientifir American 19M.';:272( l):48-57 When sheep are inoculated with cells from a CJD-infected human brain, they develop scrapie. • hi These Times .V31/93. i>. tt 'mplejustification exists for considering a similar pathogensis for Alzheimer's disease and the spongiform virus encephalopathies." - Vicki B., PhD Griffin, Virgil, MD Husle, Dane J. Griffin, MOOOOve Over Milk - The Udder Side of Dairy (Get the book.)

"Zarafonetis cjd. Treatment of Peyronie's disease with potassium para-aminobenzoate. / Urol 1959; 81: 770-72. 9. Zarafonetis cjd, et al. Treatment of pemphigus with potassium para-aminobenzoate. Am J Med Sci 1956; 231:30-50. 10. Sieve BE Further investigations in the treatment of vitiligo. Virginia Med Monthly 1945(January): 6-17. 11. Hughes CG. Oral PABA and vitiligo. / Am Acad Dermatol 1983; 9: 770 [letter]. 12. Gaby AR. The story of PABA. Nutr Healing 1997; March: 3-4,11 [review]. 13. Zarafonetis cjd. Darkening of gray hair during para-amino-ben-zoic acid therapy." - Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC, The Natural Pharmacy: Complete Home Reference to Natural Medicine (Get the book.)

"Even scientific research believes that as high as 13 percent of diagnosed Alzheimer's cases may actually be not Alzheimer's at all, but another brain disease called cjd, which is directly linked to Mad Cow. This book exposes how Mad Cow Disease has jumped species, infecting humans in the form of cjd and may be causing a whole myriad of physical, mental, and emotional problems in human beings that are being totally misdiagnosed, including depression, fibromyalgia, MS, and dozens of other illnesses. This book is absolutely a must read." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Almost from the start, local neurologists referred twice as many cases to the surveillance unit than were actual cjd cases. "That was very important, because we couldn't predict what BSE would look like in humans, and finding everything that could be a spongiform encephalopathy in humans turned out to be particularly important," Will stated. Once the unit learns of a suspected case, it sends out a researcher to visit the family and to discuss the patient, who usually is in no position to respond by the time the cjd Surveillance Unit is involved." - Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.)

"Zarafonetis cjd, et al. Treatment of pemphigus with potassium para-aminobenzoate. Am J Med Sci 1956; 231:30-50. 10. Sieve BE Further investigations in the treatment of vitiligo. Virginia Med Monthly 1945(January): 6-17. 11. Hughes CG. Oral PABA and vitiligo. / Am Acad Dermatol 1983; 9: 770 [letter]. 12. Gaby AR. The story of PABA. Nutr Healing 1997; March: 3-4,11 [review]. 13. Zarafonetis cjd. Darkening of gray hair during para-amino-ben-zoic acid therapy. / Invest Dermatol 1950; 15: 399-401. 14. Kantor GR, Ratz JL. Liver toxicity from potassium para-aminobenzoate." - Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC, The Natural Pharmacy: Complete Home Reference to Natural Medicine (Get the book.) "Zarafonetis cjd. The treatment of scleroderma: results of potassium para-aminobenzoate therapy in 104 cases. In Mills LC, Moyer JH (eds.), Inflammation and Diseases of Connective Tissue, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. 1961, 688-96. 4. Zarafonetis cjd et al. Retrospective studies in scleroderma: effect of potassium para-aminobenzoate on survival. / Clin Epidemiol 1988; 41: 193-205. 5. Zarafonetis CJ, Dabich L, Devol EB, et al. Retrospective studies in scleroderma: pulmonary findings and effect of potassium p-aminoben-zoate on vital capacity. Respiration 1989;56:22-33. 6." - Schuyler W. Lininger, Jr. DC, The Natural Pharmacy: Complete Home Reference to Natural Medicine (Get the book.)

"Unlike previously-known cjd, which almost always appeared in victims over sixty years old, the new variant showed up in younger adults. It was inexorably fatal. It was also believed to have an exceptionally long incubation period, longer even than the AIDS virus, somewhere between ten and twenty years. Because of the exceptionally dramatic course of the illness and the long incubation period, a very strong reaction set in once the public became informed of the problem. This led to the wholesale slaughter of British cattle and the collapse of the English beef industry." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"This book exposes how Mad Cow Disease has jumped species, infecting humans in the form of cjd and may be causing a whole myriad of physical, mental, and emotional problems in human beings that are being totally misdiagnosed, including depression, fibromyalgia, MS, and dozens of other illnesses. This book is absolutely a must read. When you read this book, you will be riveted and fascinated about how the American meat industry works, how the USDA works, and how in fact that our meat supply is probably some of the worst, most diseased meat in the world." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About (Get the book.)

"Friends of the Earth suggests there may be at least 120,000 cases of cjd unreported in the U.S. Cow's milk can serve as a vector for other disease. A study in Denmark found that there was a correlation between an increased incidence of leukemia in cows and of the children who drank their milk. Another study showed that 100 percent of the chimpanzees that drank milk from leukemic cows for one year got leukemia. To this mix we add genetic engineering, which alters the milk in ways we don't yet understand. The milk itself is pasteurized and homogenized, which further weakens its prana." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.) "The Center for Disease Control refuses to make cjd a reportable disease. At least one U.S. company that wants to test all its cows has not been allowed to by the U.S. government, even though more than forty countries have banned the import of U.S. beef and many of them will not lift the ban until all U.S. cattle going to slaughter are tested. In 2003, only 0.001 percent of the cattle slaughtered in the U.S. were tested for Mad Cow Disease. Throughout the U.S. there are also significant reports of "mad" elk, deer, and fish." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.)

"CJD.18 Although dementia, psychiatric and behavioral problems, muscle twitching (myoclonus), and incoordination (ataxia) are typical signs of cjd, not all patients display all of them. In rare cases, patients have seizures; others go blind because the visual centers in their brains are destroyed, not because their eyes malfunction. Lab tests reveal no inflammation or consistent abnormalities in the liver or urine. Blood tests present no signs of antibody production that would signal the body's attempt to combat an infectious organism." - Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.) "By the end of winter in 1996, more evidence had emerged that a novel subset of cjd was striking young people. The cjd Surveillance Unit counted ten cases since 1994 (including Vicky Rimmer), and eight of the victims had died by early 1996. Will's colleague, neuropathologist James Ironsides, told the SEAC during its March 8,1996, meeting that the young victims tended to have drawn-out symptoms. Another clue that a new disease had emerged lay in the neuropathology. In Stephen Churchill's brain, neurons had died off and spongy holes had appeared." - Philip Yam, The Pathological Protein: Mad Cow, Chronic Wasting, and Other Deadly Prion Diseases (Get the book.)

"Alzheimer's victims were found actually to have cjd. 1 And in a study at Yale University, when people diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease were examined after death it was found that 13 percent of the presumed Alzheimer's victims actually had cjd.72 Four million Americans are currently diagnosed with Alzheimer's.75 Our Food, Our Fellow Creatures chapter 9 The Pig Farmer One day in Iowa I met a particular gentleman—and I use that term, gentleman, frankly, only because I am trying to be polite, for that is certainly not how I saw him at the time." - John Robbins, Food Revolution: How your diet can help save your life and our world (Get the book.)

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