Comments on: Further waves of vCJD predicted

By: ainee

ainee — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:38:03 +0000

I don’t know how to stop anyone getting CJD, which research has found could be caused by injury or toxins as well as contaminated meats etc., but I believe the treatment of Vitamin B1 which was used successfully in Australia back as far as 1968, for the treatment of a brain wasting disease in livestock, could be the treatment for any kind of CJD, regardless of diagnosis or cause.
Research has found the symptoms of a brain wasting disease in livestock and CJD symptoms are similar, give or take a few and put into human terms.
Similar symptoms – why not similar treatment.
In 1968, a vet did urine tests which probably would work as well in humans, to detect possible brain wasting disease.
So information of the symptoms, treatment and detection of a brain wasting disease in livestock, just may be the saviour for anyone who starts to develop undiagnosed symptoms.
ainee

By: Grant McLeod

Grant McLeod — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:21:14 +0000

Blaine
You state “The filter is an option for transfusions but can be costly. ” The estimated cost for the UK is £75 Million pa. Tell me what price do you put on your life and the lives of you friends and relatives?

By: Blaine Charles

Blaine Charles — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:38:22 +0000

I agree that the British government has been stalling on this issue. It may be that given the recent lawsuits, they really do not want to find out how many people are infected or incubating vCJD. The filter is an option for tranfusions but can be costly. A Canadian company called Amorfix Life Sciences is very close to having a blood test for vCJD. They are testing this in France. They are also working with Britain but are awaiting access to samples from blood taken from those who have or who have died from vCJD. This will allow them to test their second generation detection kit which has a 1:5,000,000 sensitivity. Just a matter of time.

By: Helane Shields

Helane Shields — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:58:43 +0000

The US EPA and waste industry are promoting the landspreading of Class B sewage sludge containing infectious human and animal prions on grazing lands, hay fields, and dairy pastures. This puts livestock and wildlife at risk of infection. They ingest large quantities of dirt and top dressed sludge with their fodder.
Prion infected Class A sludge “biosolids” compost is spread in parks, playgrounds, home lawns, flower and vegetable gardens – putting humans, family pets, and children with their undeveloped immune systems and hand-to-mouth “eat dirt” behavior at risk. University of Wisconsin prion researchers, working with $100,000 EPA grant and a $5 million Dept. of Defense grant, have found that prions become 680 times more infectious in certain types of soil. Prions can survive for over 3 years in soils. And human prions are 100,000 times more difficult to inactivate than animal prions
Recently, researchers at UC Santa Cruz, and elsewhere, announced that Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a prion disease. “Prion” = proteinaceous infectious particle which causes always fatal TSEs (Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies) in humans and animals including BSE (Mad Cow Disease), scrapie in sheep and goats, and Chronic Wasting Disease in deer, elk and moose. Human prion diseases are AD and CJD (Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease,) and other rarer maladies. Infectious prions have been found in human and animal muscle tissue including heart, saliva, blood, urine, feces and many other organs.
Alzheimer’s rates are soaring as Babyboomers age – there are now over 5.3 million AD victims in US shedding infectious prions in their blood, urine and feces, into public sewers. This Alzheimer’s epidemic has almost 500,000 new victims each year. No sewage treatment process inactivates prions – they are practically indestructible. The wastewater treatment process reconcentrates the infectious prions in the sewage sludge.
Quotes from Dr. Joel Pedersen, Univ. of Wisconsin, on his prion research:
”
Our results suggest that if prions were to enter municipal waste water treatment systems, most of the agent would partition to activated sludge solids, survive mesophilic anaerobic digestion, and be present in
treated biosolids. Land application of biosolids containing prions could represent a route for their unintentional introduction into the environment. Our results argue for excluding inputs of prions to municipal wastewater treatment.”
“Prions could end up in wastewater treatment plants via slaughterhouse drains, hunted game cleaned in a sink, or humans with vCJD shedding prions in their urine or faeces, Pedersen says”
(Note – This UW research was conducted BEFORE UCSC scientists determined that Alzheimer’s Disease is another prion disease which may be shedding infectious prions into public sewers and Class B and Class A sludge “biosolids.)
Helane Shields, Alton, NH 03809
Infectious prions in sludge “biosolids” http://www.sludgevictims.com/pdf_files/PRIONSINSEWAGEANDSLUDGE_PEDERSEN_ETAL.pdf
http://www.sludgevictims.com/pathogens/ALZHEIMERS-CJD-samepriondisease.doc
http://www.sludgevictims.com/pathgens/prions-composting.html
http://www.sludgevictims.com/pathogens/prion.html

By: Mike Dorricott

Mike Dorricott — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:25:01 +0000

The filtration of blood to remove vCJD should be done for all blood that is given, not just for children. If not there is the significnt risk of a repeat of the blood contamination disaster that resulted in thousands haemophiliacs in Ireland and UK being infected with HIV and Hepatitis C. This time it wouldn’t be limited to haemophiliacs , it could potentially affect everyone, and governments should be taking EVERY possible step to secure the safety of blood.

By: Grant McLeod

Grant McLeod — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:22:40 +0000

The most shocking thing is Prion Filtration of blood has been a possibility since 2006. And despite the recommendation that the filter be used when transfusing children in the UK, the filters will not be in use until 2012/3 http://express-press-release.net/30/MACOPHARMA%60S%20P-CAPT%20PRION%20CAPTURE%20FILTER%20CE%20MARKED.php