Another possible culprit for contamination of vaccines...prions

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From list...

http://www.fda.gov/cber/ltr/bse041900.htm

FDA Recommendations regarding biologicals and BSE.

Note: the only country where BSE has not been noted is New Zealand.

British Government warning of vaccines and other biologicals made from

infected cows:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000884107622286 & rtmo=au5JKdqJ & atmo=tt

ttttyd & pg=/et/98/12/15/nbse15.html

(extract) " ...key Government adviser that year that there was a

" moderately high " risk of the brain disease being passed to people in

cattle-based medicines.

But serum extracted from British cattle was still being used in a

range of vaccines and other medicines until 1991 - four years after

the existence of BSE was admitted publicly and six years after the

first case was discovered on a farm in Kent. "

Note: the U.S. moved even slower, just recently conducting blood

product recalls and questioning donators.

The WHO on BSE and medicines:

http://www.who.int/emc/diseases/bse/bsecjd.html

Note: BSE equivalents (prions) are crossing animal species barriers,

spreading from sheep, cows, deer, elk, horses, etc. (and zoo animals),

and now humans.

http://www.hugo-international.org/users/dcurtis/lectures/bsecjd1.html

Concerned citizens on transmissable BSE and Petition Requesting

Immediate Action by the Food & Drug Administration to Combat

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies :

http://www.cyber-dyne.com/~tom/jan99_petition.html#CDC

[extract]...prion gene is being studied at this moment by the Lev

Goldfarb lab at NIH [unconfirmed]. There need not exist a prior family

history; numerous cases exist of confirmed prion mutations where no

prion family history of dementia could be documented.

Assuming the correct diagnois is " sporadic CJD, " it is important to

remember that in sporadic CJD, by definition, the cause of CJD is

unknown. No one has the slightest idea how easily CWD (mad deer and

elk disease) transmits to humans and if so, what its strain type(s)

would be. The victim's diet was most unusual: elk and deer twice a

week. So the CDC statement goes way beyond the facts. It reflects

instead a purely political agenda that does not serve the public

exposed to this disease.

What is the real issue here for CDC? Perceptions of the safety and

adequacy of the blood supply. The argument, basically Big Brother

knows best, is if we tell the public that the blood cannot be

certified as free from CJD, indeed, that a CJD victim with a virulent

strain has just donated extensively to the pool, the public will be

alarmed. To explain the risks to each patient, to notify earlier

recipients, to track exposed individuals over long periods of time, to

put more money into research, to explain why more wasn't done

earlier -- unthinkable. Better to issue press releases saying the

blood has not been shown to be infectious, never mind that it has not

been shown not to be infectious. And nobody knows better than the

Schonberger what Rohwer and Brown have in press about infectivity of

blood fractions.

Canada recently dropped a science-based policy because of costs and

shortages. Because it wasn't practical to assure CJD-free blood, a

policy decision was made to declare blood from CJD donors wasn't a

risk after all...

Hopkins on prions:

http://www.jhu-prion.org/index.shtml

Other:

http://mad-cow.org/~tom/blood_cjd.html

http://www.purefood.org/cjd6.18.html

http://www.zetatalk3.com/food/tfood28n.htm

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