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 | | From: | Oz | | Subject: | Re: Prions in Previously Unsuspected Organs | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 22:05:40 +0000 |
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 | Scented Nectar writes
>Inflammation lets prions invade "safe" tissue
>19:00 20 January 2005
>NewScientist.com news service
>Emily Singer
I posted elsewhere
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Er, let's just get this in perspective....
The UK had 200,000 cases of clinical BSE in cattle.
Its estimated that 500,000 - 1M preclinical BSE infected cattle were
eaten by the UK population (these would have been positive on modern
testing).
There have been about 120 cases of vCJD in the UK, and the number is now
slowly decreasing. Approximately 20 people a year died of this out of a
population of 60M.
And you stupid americans get in a fluster because you find a couple of
pre-clinical bse cases? Really, you are so mindless.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_health/Dh2_29/DH2No29.pdf
In 2002, deaths in the UK:
540,000 deaths
16,000 died from poisoning or injury
3,000 from traffic accidents
2,500 from falls (100 from falls involving bed)
20-odd from vCJD
So try very hard not to run around like headless chickens.
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Oz
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| | From: | Rubystars | | Subject: | Re: Prions in Previously Unsuspected Organs | | Date: | Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:58:02 GMT |
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"Oz" wrote in message
> And you stupid americans get in a fluster because you find a couple of
> pre-clinical bse cases? Really, you are so mindless.
It doesn't matter what the odds are if you're the one unlucky enough to get
it.
-Rubystars
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| | From: | Dean Hoffman | | Subject: | Re: Prions in Previously Unsuspected Organs | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:01:45 -0600 |
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| Rubystars wrote:
> "Oz" wrote in message
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>>And you stupid americans get in a fluster because you find a couple of
>>pre-clinical bse cases? Really, you are so mindless.
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Ruby:
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> It doesn't matter what the odds are if you're the one unlucky enough to get
> it.
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> -Rubystars
But it's about risk assessment and putting research dollars where they
will do the most good. Traffic accidents kill about 100 Merkins a day.
How
many have died because of "mad cow"?
Did you ever hear this "Whatever doesn't kill me just delays the
inevitable"? Life is a terminal condition.
Dean
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