Hi Thomas!
06 Mar 2001, "Thomas Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
TM> Does anybody know where the Mad Cow toxin comes from, how it gets
TM> started?
In England cows had been fed with protein ('animal flour' ??) that has not
been heated enough. (it was cheaper so :((( )
Sheep had been used, which suffered from Scrapie (spelling ? it is a long
known brain disease)
cows ate it and got sick.
TM> Is it infectious?
it is caused by 'malformed' (bad folded) proteins calles prions.
And yes ... it is infectious.
TM> It seems strange that eating mad-cow beef would cause the human
TM> version ten years later,
not really ...
it's quite normal that there is a incubation time ... (and 10 years isn't
that unusual ... but nobody knows how long the incubation time with
Creutzfeld Jacob is ('human' mad cow's disease))
Scientists know very little about it.
They are pretty sure that it is caused by prions, and that the nervous
tissue is HIGHYL infectious (brain, spine).
Meat is believed to be little infectious. (some scientists think that it
is not infectious at all)
BUT cows are often killed by a sting, which enters their brain ....
the heart keeps beating, and nervous tissue can circulate with the blood.
Also the spine is cut into half, which is a VERY bad idea !
CU, Ricsi
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