vCJD/BSE prion strain--Lancet

mmiller@PCSIA.COM
Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:33:01 -0500

>Subject: vCJD/BSE prion strain--Lancet
>Prof Collinge is pessimistic because he estimates the incubation time for
>the disease - the time between infection with BSE and the development of
>the devastating brain disease CJD - is probably a matter of decades rather
>than years. Studies of related spongiform diseases, such as kuru, suggest
>incubation periods of up to 40 years.

Look at the bright side of this opportunity, next time GM or somebody wants
to off a bunch of worker who are over 40 or 50, they won't have to do it
themselves, the agricultural system will have done it for them. <Evil Grin>
Mike Miller

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