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The rate of new Alzheimer's disease cases is exploding and patients are getting younger, some of them in their thirties.
A new study found that Alzheimer's disease may spread like infectious Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease or CJD.
The prions that cause both diseases are similar, and impervious to sterilization. This means patients could contract the disease through dental work, surgery and blood transfusions.
Another cause of the epidemic of Alzheimer's and so-called dementia epidemic could be the consumption of meat contaminated with mad cow disease.
During the 1996 mad cow disease outbreak in the UK meat eaters were warned that this brain disease was passed on from animal to animal through feed (which contained discards from sick animals), and to humans who ate the meat.
At the height of the mad cow crisis the meat industry launched a campaign to appear to be monitoring for sick animals at the farm and at the slaughterhouse. This was done to reassure consumers, but mad cow cases continue to appear, so the disease has not been eradicated.
The meat of sick animals can end up at the supermarket because there is no fail-proof way to detect mad cow disease in every single animal that reaches the slaughterhouse.
Only those in the last stages of the disease, when they are stumbling about, are discarded, but we can't be sure of that either. There is photographic evidence of very sick animals being dragged to be killed and processed. (Photo on the right.) Read more here:
Canada still bans people who have lived in the UK from giving blood because they may have the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob (vCJD), sometimes called the variant or human equivalent of mad cow disease.
There is no licensed test available worldwide to test for vCJD, and the incubation period before symptoms show up is currently unknown and can last for years.
A shocking study: how prions can bind to grass and transmit disease from one animal to another:
Prions that cause brain disease can pass from a wild animal urine to grass, to the cow who eats that grass, to the human who consumes beef:
A few weeks this blog published an astounding study: that prion-caused brain diseases can be passed on from a sick wild animal such as deer, to the grass on which he urinates, to the cow who eats the grass, to the human that eats the beef.
The study showed that prions can bind to plants and be taken into their roots, where they may travel to the stem and leaves.
Neither washing nor cooking plants will eliminate the contamination. Just as cooking contaminated beef did not halt the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), another prion-caused disease
Read more about this particular form of disease transmission here:
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New study warns that CJD, that causes dementia, can be passed on during surgery, dental work, and blood transfusions.
The Daily Mail:
Potentially explosive new study suggests disease is spread like CJD
Fears it could be caught from blood transfusions, ops and dental work
Leading brain surgeon warns sterilisation methods may not protect
Protein marker linked to Alzheimer's behaves in a similar way to CJD
In a nutshell, what’s this all about?
Continue reading, including related articles on CJD, Mad Cow Disease, and others.
This proven and alarming fact is played down by scientists and the media because of its obvious implications for the meat industry, dental care, and other medical procedures.
