Evel_Penivel Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 September 02, 2005 'Human remains in food' linked to vCJD By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor, The Times MAD cow disease and its human equivalent could have arrived in Britain through the importation of bone meal contaminated by human remains, according to a new theory. The hypothesis ? which has little hard evidence to support it ? is published this week in The Lancet by Alan Colchester, a medical professor at the University of Kent, Canterbury, and his daughter Nancy, a veterinary medicine specialist at the University of Edinburgh. They suggest that haphazard Hindu funeral practices led to contamination in India of animal bone meal with human bones. Some may have come from people who died of vCJD and whose partially cremated bodies had been cast into the Ganges, only to be scavenged and recycled. If so, bone meal contaminated with vCJD could have entered the animal food chain in Britain, caused the outbreak of BSE in cattle, and then transferred to people as vCJD, the human equivalent of BSE. They concede that evidence is circumstantial, but say it is strong enough to justify further research. Indian experts are sceptical, saying that scientists must ?proceed cautiously when hypothesising about a disease that has such wide geographic, cultural and religious implications?. To support the idea it would be necessary to show that vCJD is identical to a human CJD present in India, that it could infect cows through feedstuffs, and that the importation of contaminated bonemeal is plausible. The Colchesters suggest a series of investigations into these questions. But two Indian CJD experts said that even if human waste contaminated exported bonemeal, the dilution would be so enormous that the product would be unlikely to infect cows in Britain. They also note that incidence of prion disease is no higher in India than elsewhere and that no study has been carried out to established whether putrefied human tissue, taken from the Ganges, contained prion disease, or if it could be transmissible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chuckwoww Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 Not only that but we each shed about a pound of skin every year and a lot of it ends up as raindrops or household dust! We really are all one, spinning through the cosmos, bound for who knows where. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 Los... i hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them. link BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sayjann Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 'Well, since you can survive 30 days with out food, anyone resorting to eating corpses after 4 days (assuming they waited that long) really belongs listed among the criminally insane rather than the hopelessly destitute. As billions are allocated, thousands of trucks converge, dozens of ships and brigades deployed, and millions of prayers ernestly lofted, I honestly don't know how to categorize anyone to whom this reveals the USA as a monsterous fraud' from what i have seen in the European and US Media i think this Person is misguided. what Billions?,what trucks and ships?. do they really think that Prayers are going to help?......... 'Quit blaming President Bush for the problems in New Orleans...he didn't run like a coward from N.O. when Katrina approached, the citie's Liberal leaders did! The Mayor of N.O. & the Governor ( warm/fuzzy Democrats who care so much for the poor )abandoned their people in their greatest time of need. I saw the President walking the streets & not the leaders of Louisiana' i seem to recall that GWB didn't set foot in NO,i wonder why?. good link BB. some interesting comments if you read it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted September 3, 2005 Report Share Posted September 3, 2005 Why is it taking so long to help.... Air drops,choppers,....they have it all??? :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
packy Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 The devastation of Katrina stretches for 145 miles. After the hurricane, there was only one way into the metro area of New Orleans. The evacuation of New Orleans will go on for a long time. It has been 6 days and yet daily hundreds of people are pulled from the streets, houses and I just saw where a lot of tourist were still holding on from a rooftop that was a timeshare that they had come in possession of, ( I think they had actually broke into it). Whatever it takes, whether they have to loot or steal, I would do the same as they do. This is overwhelming even for the US Government. But I too ask, Why is it taking so long? With the forecast being a storm of that size, why wasn't the guard put on notice? Within two hundred miles there are over six military bases, Why didn't they go on alert to respond just after the storm? I'll answer that last question myself. All of the military personnel are given an impact card, same as a VISA or Mastercard. If a storm heads near, they are supposed to evacuate and use this card for expenses. When I was in the Air Force, they would have given me nothing except GOOD LUCK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted September 4, 2005 Report Share Posted September 4, 2005 You think a political backlash for the poor reponse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evel_Penivel Posted September 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 The guy who wrote people were eating corpses in N O has retracted that statement. Check the link. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted September 6, 2005 Report Share Posted September 6, 2005 good ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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