nvCJD

Do you remember the massive deaths that would result from BSE (mad cows disease) spreading to humans as vCJD or nvCJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)?

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Do you remember the massive deaths that would result from BSE (mad cows disease) spreading to humans as vCJD or nvCJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)?

AIDS Not a sheep 2008

If this trend is extrapolated and one percent of the now five million Americans with Alzheimer's actually have CJD (or nvCJD), the nationwide estimate rises dramatically from 200 to 50,000 cases.

This is your brain on meat 2007

CJD has been recognized for a long time as a rare disease of the elderly — very similar to Alzheimer's disease — but nvCJD is different.

This is your brain on meat 2007

Those predictions never did come true, and the total level of all CJD deaths remains at a similar level to which it always did. nvCJD was never formally linked to BSE, although there was some circumstantial evidence to support the hypothesis, there are now stories of possible nvCJD cases dating back to the 1970s.

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Last comment – with respect to mad cow disease, do you remember the media headlines that nvCJD was going to become endemic in the UK, how we were just on the leading edge of a bell curve, with wild projections of death tolls in years to come due to long incubation periods etc. etc.

Lost Cedars #2 « Climate Audit 2005

On a slightly related topic, Portugal just found their first case of nvCJD on Saturday.

qdiosa Diary Entry qdiosa 2005

The new variation was called new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD), was similar to BSE and its connection to BSE was based on the following findings: The nvCJD victims had lived in areas where outbreaks of BSE had occurred in cattle years earlier.

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Brain tissue from BSE-infected cows caused experimental animals to develop symptoms and brain tissue disorders similar to those of the nvCJD victims.

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The British government concluded that BSE was probably the cause of nvCJD, and that the victims contracted the disease probably by

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