Soil-bound Prions That Cause CWD Remain Infectious

University of Wisconsin-Madison via ScienceDaily ^ | April 14, 2006 | NA

[Iowa Granny]

I've been lead to believe that Scrapie and BSE are closely related.

However, early on in the BSE scare, we were told that BSE is encapsulated in the brain. I'm sure this story was circulate to ease the fears of those who live close to the Nat'l Disease Lab in Ames where the BSE cattle were studied.

Later we learned that packers were told to discontinue the use of the 'whip' to remove meat from the spinal cord in order to eliminate the possibility of BSE entering the food chain.

This theory of animals sheading the disease via feces is new to me. It makes sense, given they've found prions in the soil.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the links.