[MD] dualism

[Dan Glover]

>From: "ian glendinning" <psybertron at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: Re: [MD] dualism
>Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 04:31:56 +0000
>
>Hi Dan,
>
>Thanks for that. I hadn't heard of CWD in natural populations of deer
>and elk. I learn something new every day.
>
>A bit casual of you to suggest equating it with mad cow - BSE and
>HVCJD - and over 50% population, but you're right these are a scary
>class of diseases.

Ian, I didn't realize I was being casual.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=90724

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=405861

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=387848

The incubation period for humans is measured in decades. Great Britian's 
agricultural authorities ignored the mad cow epidemic despite a decade of 
warnings that eating infected cattle could lead to HVCJD. I guess they were 
feeling casual too.

>Natural mutations of proteins to prion - virus
>like - fragments that make them transmissible even if their original
>arising, their disease causing effects and their transmissibility are
>relatively rare and random.

Eat up then.

>
>I won't say any more until I know a little more about it, but I
>suspect this is a balance of risks question - the risk of alternatives
>to the original risk .... but no point taking a risk there is no need
>to take, as you say.

That's very gracious of you. Thanks.