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jean-claude

>Subject: Mad cow disease incubation period
>
>Notice a pattern here? - HIV has an average latency period of ten years,
>except when the HIV-scientists want to give drug cocktails credit for all
>the healthy HIV-positives, whereupon the latency period conveniently
>disappears. I confidently predict that everyone with HIV or prions in
>their
>blood will be dead in a century or so.  Please pass the grant money.  -
>Phil
>
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010322/hl/madcow_5.html
>
>Thursday March 22 11:12 AM ET
>Human ``Mad Cow'' Incubation Period Could Be 30 Years
>
>By Richard Woodman
>
>LONDON (Reuters Health) - The findings of the inquiry into a cluster of
>variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (news - web sites) (vCJD) cases--the
>human version of mad cow disease--suggest the fatal disease has an
>average
>incubation period of 30 years and may claim thousands or tens of
>thousands
>more victims, a leading scientist warned on Thursday.
>
>The inquiry report into five deaths in the English village of
>Queniborough,
>Leicestershire, blamed specific butchering methods for contamination of
>meat with bovine brain and estimated an incubation period of the disease
>between 10 and 16 years. The report was issued Wednesday.
>
>But Professor John Collinge, a member of the Spongiform Encephalopathy
>Advisory Committee (SEAC), which advises the government on mad cow
>disease
>or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE (news - web sites)), told BBC
>Radio: ``For me the main finding from this report is that the significant
>exposure appears to pre-date 1985.
>
>``That sent a little chill down my spine, certainly. It fits with our
>estimates that we have been making of the likely incubation periods of
>BSE
>in humans.''
>
>Professor Collinge, a specialist in prion protein diseases at St. Mary's
>Hospital, London, pointed out: ``The cases we are seeing at the moment
>are
>by definition those with the shortest incubation periods.'' Prions are
>the
>infectious proteins thought to cause both BSE and vCJD.
>
>Therefore, the average incubation period could ``well be in the region of
>30 years''.
>
>He added: ``Unfortunately what follows from that, since the exposure of
>the
>population after 1985 was very much larger than that that preceded it,
>(is
>that) many more cases must be in the pipeline. ``We may see thousands, or
>tens of thousands.''
>
>+++++
>
>Related item:
>From: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: foot and mouth fiasco latest!!!
>Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 08:48:26 -0000
>
>"My God! Is that really what these ministry officials are  doing on our
>farms?"   And it looks like they're all coming your way too. So get
>prepared.
>Go now to:
>
>http://www.whatareweswallowing.freeserve.co.uk/footandmouthenter.htm
>
>for a shocking insight into the mechanics of an official  visit to a
>'foot
>and mouth' farm.  Foot and mouth plus other news being updated all the
>time at:
>
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