Well let's clear this up...
In cows the disease is called MAD COW disease, in Sheep it's called Scrapie,
I believe in monkeys its' called Kuru... these are all "Transmissible
Spongiform encephalopathies" that is the brain takes on a "sponge like"
appearance..., this disease in humans is called "Creutzfield-JaKob
disease".... The thing with this disease is that it does have a species
transmission barrier, that is, it is very likely to transmit from one cow to
another, but not to another species. However in the lab, it has proven to
be cross species transmissible and there is a MUCH higher incidence of CJD
in humans in the areas where mad cow disease is prevalent...SO.... Back to
AMPS...
Phil Levin W2GE
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-amps@contesting.com [mailto:owner-amps@contesting.com]On Behalf
Of Jon Ogden
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 10:52 AM
To: measures; paul
Cc: AMPS
Subject: Re: [AMPS] 4-1000A Project
on 4/4/01 9:34 AM, measures at 2@vc.net wrote:
>>
>>
>> Mad COW Disease does not affect humans, ... ...
>
> A number of people have died from Mad Cow disease, Paul.
Actually, Rich, that is incorrect.
There is a malady that affects humans that is similar to Mad Cow. It is
believed to be linked to the eating of tainted beef. But there have been
few cases and the link has not been 100% conclusively established.
So Paul is quite correct.
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Jon Ogden
NA9D (ex: KE9NA)
Member: ARRL, AMSAT, DXCC, NRA
http://www.qsl.net/ke9na
"A life lived in fear is a life half lived."
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