Posted on 01/28/2005 8:18:51 AM PST by LibWhacker
A goat slaughtered in France in 2002 has tested positive for "mad cow" disease, French and EU officials said, announcing the first case in the world of an animal other than a bovine coming down with the fatal illness that can be transmitted to humans.
The discovery of the disease -- known scientifically as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cows -- is a disturbing sign that it can cross over to other species used for human consumption.
The presence of BSE in other animals had been viewed as theoretically possible but has never previously been detected.
BSE has been linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), the human form of mad cow disease, which causes brain-wasting, personality change, loss of body function, and ultimately death.
The French agriculture ministry said the new case was confirmed by a panel of scientists appointed by the European Commission.
It stressed that the Commission was not yet recommending consumers avoid buying products with goat meat but was advising EU states to step up checks for any other goats showing BSE symptoms, such as trembling and lacking coordination.
British health authorities said in October last year that British scientists in a laboratory in Weybridge, England, were testing brain tissue from the goat.
The goat in question was slaughtered in an abbatoir in Ales, in southern France in 2002 but was kept out of the food chain. The 300 other goats in its herd were destroyed as a precaution even though testing revealed no trace of BSE in any of them.
There are 1.2 million goats raised in France, of with 940,000 are used to produce milk for dairy products.
BSE first appeared in cows on a farm in West Sussex, south England in 1986. The disease has an incubation period of around five years.
Two cows were out grazing in a field, and one cow says to the other, "Did you hear about that 'Mad Cow Disease'?"
The other cow replies, "Yes, it's just awful. Makes me glad I'm a chicken!"
there aren't any deer in northern colorado.
apparently colorado state university released some deer that they'd been experimenting on and bse spread through out the population.
RENDERERS, FEED MILLS, AND PROTEIN BLENDERS are still suspect to me.
Check out this sight:
Check out the Redering Process Flow Chart.
Most are pinged to me by Libertarianize the GOP. Rarely do I get to them first. A few are pinged to me by others. Sometimes the poster of the article will have the good sense to ping me when they post.
Pitty the list I have to go through. I not only get pinged to the articles I ping you to, there are the ones I ping my personal list to, then there are the high volume lists I'm on myself including the immigration list, mhking's black and damn lists, neverdem's health list, kevin davis's space list and I'm sure I'm missing a few. Then there are the replies to me and the bumps by EGC. Adds up to about a 130 a day.
Between the border ping, your list and a few others I get around fifty pings. Pinging you to a thread or two allows me to mark my comments so I can easily find when I was last on and see what is new.
Hahaha, that is what I use EGC's bumps for. Glad I'm not the only one.
Problem as in chances of getting it or in what happens after you get it?
I don't think so.
If any conspiracy exists, it's way over the heads of the loony left.
The questions you may want to pursue are who first conceived the practice of feeding cattle parts back to cattle, when did it start & did they have any knowledge of kuru?
Deaths from forms of CJD continue in Britain.
http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/figures.htm
Seems like it dropped off last year. That doesn't mean it's going away. If and when the deaths will stop is anyone's guess. Chronic wasting disease may be the real problem in the US. That's spread into the East from the West recently. Some think some cases of Alzheimers are really vCJD. Because of the lack of autopsies, no one wants to autopsy all the cases, we don't know. In the UK they ran tests on appendix and tonsil tissue and found indications of vCJD. They did an extrapolation that indicated thousands probably had the disease in Britain.
The sheer number of all these enviro-whacko, nanny-government and NGO-control-freak stories (...and the even larger number of kool-aid drinkers noted or implied therein) simply makes my head hurt.
...Well then, I bet you could do Boxer as a snake, too, huh?
Love to, but I simply copy others clever work.
"Problem as in chances of getting it or in what happens after you get it?"
Chances it getting the disease?
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