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MAD COW DISEASE REACHED HUMANS AS A NEW PRION DISEASE
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INFECTED CATTLE BECAME CATTLE FEED 🔁
Mad Cow Disease Is A Degenerative Disease Of The Nervous System
Scientists Call It Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Or BSE
A Veterinary Review Says The Epidemic Persisted Whatever Started It
Contaminated Cow Material Was Recycled To More Animals
That Recycling Started In The Mid 1980s
The Review Says It Made The Epidemic Expand As Well
A Paper By Wilesmith Linked Most Cases To Recycled Cattle Tissues
Those Tissues Reached Cattle Through Meat And Bone Meal
The Meal Went Into Cattle Rations As A Source Of Protein
Most Cases Were Probably Infected As Calves
Some Early Cases Came From Herds That Had Not Bought Cattle For Years
Those Herds Had Also Had No Contact With Sheep Or Goats
Wilesmith Said A Gap Between Herd Types Backed The Feed Theory
Dairy Herds Had A Considerably Greater Incidence
The Paper Put Affected British Dairy Herds At 59 Percent
For Beef Suckler Herds It Was 15.3 Percent
Over 48,000 Beef Suckler Herds Had No Cases
Wilesmith Said That Fit How Those Herds Were Fed
Concentrate Rations Were Relatively Uncommon In Beef Suckler Herds
Their Winter Feed Was Mostly Stored Grass And Home Grown Cereals
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A Prion Is A Misfolded Form Of A Normal Body Protein
The Veterinary Review Singles Out Tissues Likely To Contain Prions
It Calls Them Specified Risk Material
Such Tissues Are Also Likely To Spread BSE
The WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Code Lists Examples Of Them
Brain And Spinal Cord Are Named On That List
So Are The Eyes And The Spine
It Also Names The Tonsils And The Skull
Last On The List Is The Distal Ileum
The Same Review Says Milk And Dairy Products Do Not Contain BSE
Two Reviews Link Eating Certain Cattle Tissues To Human Disease
One Said Human Cases Most Probably Came From Eating Beef Products
That Beef Was Probably Contaminated By Central Nervous System Tissue
The Veterinary Review Says Strong Evidence Suggests A Link To Offal
It Means Offal From Infected Cattle Above All Brain And Spinal Cord
Eating It Is Tied To Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Or Variant CJD
That Illness Develops After A Long Incubation Period
It Is Lethal And Typically Means Months Of Illness Before Death
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A NEW DISEASE APPEARED IN YOUNG PEOPLE 👥
Worry About BSE Led The UK To Restart CJD Surveillance In May 1990
The Common Sporadic Form Of CJD Mostly Affects People Over 60
A Report In 1996 Described Cases In Unusually Young Patients
Robert Will And Colleagues Reported 10 CJD Cases In The UK
The Ten Patients Had A Median Age Of 29
Their Brain Tissue Also Showed A Profile Not Seen Before
The Authors Said A BSE Link May Be The Most Plausible Explanation
They Added The Link Cannot Be Confirmed On This Evidence Alone
Early Studies Suggested Variant CJD Was A New Human Prion Disease
They Linked It To Dietary Exposure To The BSE Agent
A Review Of Variant CJD Says The Link Has Since Been Confirmed
The Evidence Comes Mostly From Experiments In Animals
That Review Dates Variant CJD Back To When BSE Emerged
The First Cases Were Reported About Ten Years After That
Most Variant CJD Cases Began At A Young Age
Variant CJD Patients Had A Median Age At Death Of 28
There Were 178 Primary UK Cases And 54 More Elsewhere
That Makes 232 Recognised Cases In Total
