Purdey cites the much higher incidence of BSE in the British Isles as they instituted high dose systemic organophospate treatment of cattle to control the warble fly in November 1986. The UK was contaminated with large amounts of strontium 90 in April 1986 as a consequence of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident and large amounts of rainfall. There was a synergistic effect of organophospates and strontium 90 available at the same time.
The paper cites copper and zinc deficiencies as part of the cause.
"The UK was contaminated with
large amounts of strontium 90 in April 1986 as a consequence of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident and
large amounts of rainfall. There was a synergistic effect of organophospates and strontium 90 available at the
same time."
We'd be seeing a greater synergistic effect in large swath from Poland/Germany up thru Finland and Sweden then and these areas aren't historically connected with scrapie to the degree Great Britain is and then there is the prion itself.
"The heavy metal grows into fibrils characteristic of
spongiform encephalopathies."
Interesting but these fibrils wouldn't survive autoclaving etc though the potential for misdiagnosis probably exists if this fibril development is so. How would you account for all the medical research and scientific periodicals that deal with prionic diseases and BSE... all the vet path studies can't be rigged and you can't gag all the toxicologists on the planet.