Happy Cow? – Not Mad because he hasn’t (yet) read this article.
Since a “Mad Cow” was found at a Hanford, California slaughterhouse last week – people are again raising concerns about dying from eating beef. (Hanford County shares a fence with Monterey County.)
This article is an overview of the science of alarming Mad Cow Disease in plain English – and what you can do to prevent you and your loved ones from getting it.
“Millions of British television viewers watched the harrowing final days of 14-year-old Zoe Jeffries in October 2000. The ordeal of the young girl from Manchester, England, began more than two years earlier. First she cried for two weeks, then came the hallucinations and continuous screaming.
As the disease progressed, the pain in her legs worsened until she couldn’t walk. Bedridden, her brain wasting away, she was reduced to communicating through moans and grunts.” -FDA Magazine
The first government recognized death of a North American from Mad-Cow disease was on June 20, 2004 in Meridian, Florida. Some believe she contracted it by eating beef in England.
Transmissible
Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE)
Overview
Mad Cow Disease is only one of a deadly family of diseases called Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy or TSEs (seemingly caused by Prions). TSEs are arguably more deadly than cancer, AIDs or biological or chemical weapons.
- TSEs are 100% percent fatal to humans, are undetectable, untreatable, incurable, cannot be killed by cooking or even by burning and can live in your body for 40 years before acting.
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