Mad Cow case in Tulsa?

[patric]

Im surprised no one has followed up on the report of a possible death from Jacob-Creutzfeldt disease (human form of Mad Cow disease).
No one can talk about it (HIPPA privacy rule) so I guess we'll have to just hope our leaders take care of us...

http://www.fox23.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=26405@video.fox23.com&navCatId=5

[Hoss]

That's just out-and-out scary.  I understand privacy laws, but this is just scary.  I cannot believe that the State Dept of Health would contact the CDC and NOT consider this an overriding health concern.

And shame on the family for not wanting to know what killed a loved one.  If it indeed was BSE (Bovine spongiform encephalopthy, aka Mad Cow) then the consuming public has a right to know.  I hope no one else dies of this because the family was too afraid to know.

[Breadburner]

I know of one case....It can take many years for the disease to manifest itself so it's hard to determine when a person was infected....

[brunoflipper]

it is CJD not JCD...
it is caused by a prion, which are scary little ****ers...
CJD has two forms classical and new variant...
classical is the most common and has nothing to do with BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) AKA "mad cow"...
new variant is less than one percent of all CJD cases and is related to BSE...
supposedly the cases are about 1 in 1 million persons... i've personally seen three cases...

[RecycleMichael]

How come men don't get Mad Cow disease?

Cause we're pigs.

[RecycleMichael]

I always get these things mixed up. What is the difference between e-coli and el nino?

If you eat a rare steak, it rains?

[mr.jaynes]

Madcow, isn't that the sophomoric dj out of Chicago who appears regularly on Fox and Friends?

[Conan71]

You know why they call it PMS?

Mad Cow Disease was already taken.

[jamesrage]

It is irresponsible of the media to claim mad cow if there is no evidence of it.

[patric]

quote:Originally posted by jamesrage

It is irresponsible of the media to claim mad cow if there is no evidence of it.

Ill agree with that.  I think the tone of the report, though, was how ill-prepared the City-County Health Department seemed in dealing with investigating it, and how HIPAA could seriously get in the way of preventing epidemics.

Another impression I got was that big hospitals fall back on "Patient Privacy" to shield their hospitals from bad publicity.

[patric]

So, who still thinks that "Pink Slime" (which may or may not include spine, brain or other parts of the cow's nervous system)  is a good idea?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/health/case-of-mad-cow-disease-is-found-in-us.html

[dbacks fan]

So, who still thinks that "Pink Slime" (which may or may not include spine, brain or other parts of the cow's nervous system)  is a good idea?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/health/case-of-mad-cow-disease-is-found-in-us.html

The Department of Agriculture announced that it had identified a case of mad cow disease, the first in six years, in a dairy cow in central California.

The cow "was never presented for human consumption, so it at no time presented a risk to the food supply or human health," John Clifford, chief veterinary officer at the department, said in a statement.

Dr. Clifford noted that milk did not transmit bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the scientific name for mad cow disease. He expressed confidence in the health of the nation's cattle and the safety of beef during a press briefing in Washington.

The animal had been picked up from the farm and taken to a rendering plant, which noticed some of the signs of B.S.E., such as unsteadiness and aggression, and notified U.S.D.A. inspectors, Dr. Clifford said in a brief interview.

The body will remain at the rendering facility and will be disposed of once the agency completes its investigation, probably by incineration or some other method that ensures the destruction of its tissues.

It was the fourth reported case of mad cow disease, a degenerative disease that affects the brains and spinal cords of cattle, in the United States. Humans can contract the disease by eating meat from an infected cow.

Only one case of mad cow disease in the United States was of the type derived from feed. That case set off a panic in 2003 when a Canadian-born cow in Washington state tested positive.

Exports of American beef plummeted as countries instituted bans, and livestock producers and meatpacking companies lost billions of dollars. Asian nations in particular remain wary of American beef, and news Tuesday that another infected cow had been identified sent cattle futures for June delivery to their lowest level in 11 months.

The U.S.D.A. tested more than 795,000 animals in the 18 months after that cow was identified and found only two more cases. Neither was a type of B.S.E. associated with infected feed.

In 2006, the department said the identification of only two additional infected animals suggested it was using a bazooka to fight a mouse. It cut its surveillance program by 90 percent, despite criticism from consumer groups.

Those same critics on Tuesday complained again about the department's surveillance program. "We really don't know if this is an isolated unusual event or whether there are more cases in U.S. beef," Dr. Michael Hansen, senior scientist at Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports. "Our monitoring program is just too small."

The two other animals with mad cow disease as well as the one identified on Tuesday all had a form called atypical B.S.E. "We do not believe this was passed to the animal through infected feed materials," Dr. Clifford said.

Switzerland reported a case of atypical B.S.E. in March, as have many other countries. "Our best prevailing wisdom about this is that there may be a spontaneous form of this cow dementia," said Dr. Will Hueston, a professor of public health at the University of Minnesota. "This new case appears to be that sporadic type of the disease, a sole cow that happens to get it at random and without any predictive characteristics."

Alarmist are you? You, patic, and nathan, not to mention TTAC and others are so convinced, and no better than the talkingheads. Go protest streetlights, and city lighting in general, Nate, you and TTC, and patric, just keep believing that the cops are wrong.

[sgrizzle]

[patric]

Alarmist are you? You, patic, and nathan, not to mention TTAC and others are so convinced, and no better than the talkingheads. Go protest streetlights, and city lighting in general, Nate, you and TTC, and patric, just keep believing that the cops are wrong.

What a completely pointless and ugly posting.  At least Sgrizzle was entertaining.

[Hoss]

What a completely pointless and ugly posting.  At least Sgrizzle was entertaining.

Methinks it must be pent up frustration at living in the land of the uber-liberals, Oregon...