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To: Mark Adams who wrote (61562)	1/25/2001 12:10:30 PM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

i haven't read anywhere that the disease can be transferred to humans through cows milk... so the part about fat you mentioned caught my attention.

To: Mark Adams who wrote (61562)	1/25/2001 12:13:44 PM
From: LLCF	Respond to of 436258

<A British Vegan woman caught it simply by dusting her roses with blood meal.> Wow, this really sucks. -ng- Wonder how this would be factored into the productivity numbers of countries using 'industial farms' vs older methods -ng- DAK

To: Mark Adams who wrote (61562)	1/25/2001 12:36:54 PM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Why would a Vegan use blood meal?

To: Mark Adams who wrote (61562)	1/25/2001 12:59:10 PM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Mark-- He's got this part clearly wrong. CJD was a 'prion' disease, so called after the minuscule protein particle that seemed to cause it, not a bacteria, not a microbe, but a virus, a sub-microscopic speck that had no DNA or genetic structure, A Flying Dutchman of a protein particle like an unpiloted plane, just a few simple atoms of death strung on an amino ribbon floating single-mindedly through a mammalian body until it found the area where it loves to root, the brain. No RNA either, so it is not a virus. Amazing Discovery All our results pointed toward one startling conclusion: the infectious agent in scrapie (and presumably in the related diseases) did indeed lack nucleic acid and consisted mainly, if not exclusively, of protein. We deduced that DNA and RNA were absent because, like Alper, we saw that procedures known to damage nucleic acid did not reduce infectivity. And we knew protein was an essential component because procedures that denature (unfold) or degrade protein reduced infectivity. I thus introduced the term "prion" to distinguish this class of disease conveyer from viruses, bacteria, fungi and other known pathogens. Not long afterward, we determined that scrapie prions contained a single protein that we called PrP, for "prion protein." sciam.com