Mad Cow Disease Blamed For Patient's Death In Texas 132
An anonymous reader writes 'Health officials say a patient in Texas has died of a rare brain disorder believed to be caused by consumption of beef products contaminated with mad cow disease. It is only the fourth known case of its kind in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement that recent laboratory tests confirmed a diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the patient.' From the article: 'The CDC says the Texas patient's history included extensive travel to Europe and the Middle East and that it is likely the infection occurred overseas. In each of the three previous U.S. deaths, the initial infection is believed to have taken place in other countries. ... The Texas Department of State Health Services says there are no state public health concerns or threats associated with the case. State and federal health officials continue to investigate and are trying to track the source of the infection.'
TX Law (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Of course they have no concerns, they don't tes (Score:2, Informative)
It'd raise the price of beef 1 cent per pound to test every cow slaughtered,
Wow... you're a deluded idiot. From TFA, which you obviously did not read:
A U.S.D.A. surveillance program tests brain tissue taken from about 40,000 dead cows a year for BSE.
Also from the article:
Another key part of the U.S. food safety net is to make sure that animal tissues that can carry BSE - including the brain and spinal cord - are removed from cattle before they're processed for food.
Not only are you a deluded idiot, but you're too stupid to do the barest of study:
It's easy to say there's no concerns when it can take 30yrs to manifest
Most victims die six months after initial symptoms appear, often of pneumonia due to impaired coughing reflexes. About 15% of patients survive for two or more years.[12] Some patients have been known to live 4â"5 years with mostly psychological symptoms until the disease progresses causing more physical symptoms leading to a diagnosis and inevitable death usually within the first year of diagnosis. [wikipedia.org]
Re:Of course they have no concerns, they don't tes (Score:5, Informative)
It'd raise the price of beef 1 cent per pound to test every cow slaughtered,
Wow... you're a deluded idiot. From TFA, which you obviously did not read: A U.S.D.A. surveillance program tests brain tissue taken from about 40,000 dead cows a year for BSE.
http://usda01.library.cornell.... [cornell.edu]
"Commercial cattle slaughter during 2012 totaled 33.0 million head" (pg6)
At least Ihop0 wasn't a deluded enough of an idiot to confuse 40,000 to 33 million.
Also from the article: Another key part of the U.S. food safety net is to make sure that animal tissues that can carry BSE - including the brain and spinal cord - are removed from cattle before they're processed for food.
Not only are you a deluded idiot, but you're too stupid to do the barest of study:
It's easy to say there's no concerns when it can take 30yrs to manifest
Most victims die six months after initial symptoms appear, often of pneumonia due to impaired coughing reflexes. About 15% of patients survive for two or more years.[12] Some patients have been known to live 4â"5 years with mostly psychological symptoms until the disease progresses causing more physical symptoms leading to a diagnosis and inevitable death usually within the first year of diagnosis. [wikipedia.org]
http://memory.ucsf.edu/cjd/ove... [ucsf.edu]
"The incubation period is the time it takes you to become sick after you've contracted a disease. Cold symptoms usually start a day or two after you're exposed to a cold virus, for example, whereas the time frame for CJD is considerably longer. We think that it often takes years or even decades after exposure to the infectious forms before someone with CJD develops signs and symptoms of the disease."
And once again, at least Ihop0 wasn't a deluded idiot enough not to understand that the people didn't contract the disease initially the second they started showing initial symptoms.... although the quote you have there from wikipedia basically reinforces what he said, instead of what you are trying to imply.
So, what was our point other than randomly try to bash someone by having your inability to understand the written word flair up?
Re:Of course they have no concerns, they don't tes (Score:5, Informative)
You are a fucking idiot. It incubates for anywhere up to 7-10 years before symptoms appear. By the time symptoms appear, you're already fucked.
Testing 40,000 cows is a drop in the bucket. UK tests *EVERY SINGLE COW*.
The symptoms manifests in cows after about 7 years, so under Bush, they changed the requirement that meat cows be slaughtered before 3, so no one can even spot a cow that is carrying it.
Re:TX Law (Score:5, Informative)
Oprah said that SHE lost interest in eating hamburgers because of the BSE outbreak in Europe. She didn't disparage US Beef producers. She didn't tell her army of soccer moms to stop eating beef. That's why she won.
I'm not an Oprah fan but fair is fair and suing her was bullshit.
LK
Re:TX Law (Score:2, Informative)
The CDC says the Texas patient's history included extensive travel to Europe and the Middle East and that it is likely the infection occurred overseas. In each of the three previous U.S. deaths, the initial infection is believed to have taken place in other countries.
It wasn't from Texas beef.