DRUG CURE HOPE FOR HUMAN BSE!!!

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Telegraph/U.K.-- 2/19/99

MINISTERS are to launch research on primates and genetically engineered

rats to study drugs showing promise in preventing human BSE, of which

there have been 38 cases.

A study by the neuropathogenesis unit in Edinburgh, published by the

Lancet, showed that mice infected with scrapie, the BSE equivalent in

sheep, can be protected from spongiform disease by a SINGLE DOSE OF

PENTOSAN POLYSULPHATE soon after exposure to infection.

The Medical Research Council and Department of Health will form a group

considering treatments for human BSE - variant CJD - after comments by

the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee///////

[This is wonderful news, BUT, something just gets my goat here. What the

hell is wrong with these people. Either they KNOW CJD is the same as

nvCJD, or they just don't give a DAMN about people dying from CJD. You

have 38 people dead of nvCJD, so they are going to research this

medicine, (WONDERFUL). But, what about the 1,000's and 1,000's of people

dying AND dead from CJD. Hell, I forgot, they don't count..........If

this medicine works on nvCJD, will this medicine work on CJD, and if so,

what does this mean???] Terry/MADSON