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Final Abstract Number: ISE.114 Session: International Scientific Exchange Transmissible Spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) animal and human TSE in North America update October 2009 T. Singeltary Bacliff, TX, USA Background: An update on atypical BSE and other TSE in North America. Please remember, the typical U.K. c-BSE, the atypical l-BSE (BASE), and h-BSE have all been documented in North America, along with the typical scrapie's, and atypical Nor-98 Scrapie, and to date, 2 different strains of CWD, and also TME. All these TSE in different species have been rendered and fed to food producing animals for humans and animals in North America (TSE in cats and dogs ?), and that the trading of these TSEs via animals and products via the USA and Canada has been immense over the years, decades. snip... Conclusion: I would like to submit a review of past CJD surveillance in the USA, and the urgent need to make all human TSE in the USA a reportable disease, in every state, of every age group, and to make this mandatory immediately without further delay. The ramifications of not doing so will only allow this agent to spread further in the medical, dental, surgical arena's. Restricting the reporting of CJD and or any human TSE is NOT scientific. Iatrogenic CJD knows NO age group, TSE knows no boundaries. I propose as with Aguzzi, Asante, Collinge, Caughey, Deslys, Dormont, Gibbs, Gajdusek, Ironside, Manuelidis, Marsh, et al and many more, that the world of TSE Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy is far from an exact science, but there is enough proven science to date that this myth should be put to rest once and for all, and that we move forward with a new classification for human and animal TSE that would properly identify the infected species, the source species, and then the route. http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2010/10/experimental-transm OpEdNews Member for 256 week(s) and 4 day(s) 1 Articles, 0 Quick Links, 14 Comments, 0 Diaries, 0 Polls Please Note: If you want to contact one of our OpEdNews writers, we ask that you login to your OpEdNews account. If you don't yet have an account, you can signup, free. PLUS post comments and maybe even submit articles or blog diaries. We would be delighted to welcome you. |
