this is shocking....the australian govt for the past 100 years, have done all in their power to keep Australia free from mad cow disease.... and now this govnut will introduce meat from countries that have mad cow disease into our supermarkets and country this week.... I smell a bribe from all involved...the big supermarkets , who do not give a damn, so long as they make mega profits from our food... and bribes from others, who want to wipe out our beef industry....which is currently the safest in the world.
have you known anyone who suffered from mad cow disease...do some research to see if you would like to suffer from it... I will not be buying beef, or any beef products from today...from any source.... it did occur to me , that I could buy from a local butcher, but then once the mad cow meat is here, it takes a while to infect our beef....so there goes that option...**and then the cover ups, silence to save us the consumer from panicking....
Funny the govnuts will spend millions in an attempt to save you from swine flue.....then introduce basically mad cow disease with a swipe of the hand...
*** I knew a person who has this disease...aged about 25, believed acquired it from the family abbatoir....somewhere in regional australia....there were rumours over the years of outbreaks here in OZ, tht were hushed up... most doctors would not recognise it if they fell over it...
here is a brief rundown on the disease..........
Affects the brain Since Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease affects the brain, the symptoms it produces are neurological. It may start out subtly with insomnia, depression, confusion, personality and behavioral changes, and problems with memory, coordination, and sight. As it progresses, the person rapidly develops dementia and involuntary, irregular jerking movements called myoclonus.
In the final stage of the disease, the patient loses all mental and physical functions, lapses into a coma, and eventually dies. The course of the disease usually takes one year. The disease generally affects people between the ages of 50 to 75 years. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is called "variant" because it has affected people at a younger age, even teenagers (the ages have ranged from 18 to 53 years old).
Difficult to diagnose There is not, as yet, a definitive medical test for diagnosing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Since the disease is rare, some physicians might not even consider it as a diagnosis, and might mistake the symptoms for other brain disorders like Alzheimer's or Huntington disease. Scientists suggest that new, sophisticated laboratory testing will in the future be able to detect the prions in an infected person's blood or tissues. http://rarediseases.about.com/od/rarediseases1/a/vcjd.htm
