>From: "ian glendinning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [MD] dualism >Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:31:56 +0000 > >Hi Dan, > >Thanks for that. I hadn't heard of CWD in natural populations of deer >and elk. I learn something new every day. > >A bit casual of you to suggest equating it with mad cow - BSE and >HVCJD - and over 50% population, but you're right these are a scary >class of diseases.
Ian, I didn't realize I was being casual. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=90724 http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=405861 http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=387848 The incubation period for humans is measured in decades. Great Britian's agricultural authorities ignored the mad cow epidemic despite a decade of warnings that eating infected cattle could lead to HVCJD. I guess they were feeling casual too. >Natural mutations of proteins to prion - virus >like - fragments that make them transmissible even if their original >arising, their disease causing effects and their transmissibility are >relatively rare and random. Eat up then. > >I won't say any more until I know a little more about it, but I >suspect this is a balance of risks question - the risk of alternatives >to the original risk .... but no point taking a risk there is no need >to take, as you say. That's very gracious of you. Thanks. moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
