Mad Cow Disease Is Prion Disease
Mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease and Alzheimer’s disease are very similar. They all are forms of prion disease. The only significant distinction is that one impacts livestock, another kills wildlife and Alzheimer’s disease kills people. In order to understand the threat, one must understand the dynamics of this prion disease because prions migrate, mutate and multiply. There is no species barrier that insulates people from the migration of the contamination.
The most common forms of neurodegenerative disease include Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease–the most aggressive and infectious of them all. According to Nobel Prize Laureate Stanley Prusiner, they are all part of the same disease spectrum—prion disease.
Alzheimer’s disease, for example, is a member of this aggressive (spectrum) of neurodegenerative diseases known as Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE). The operative word is “transmissible.” It is so transmissible that we are spreading the disease among ourselves and with creatures in the environment, including wildlife and livestock. We are spreading the contagion in many ways, including the recycling of our sewage as a source of fertilizer and reclaimed water. It’s impossible to stop prions and prion disease and the risk assessments associated with these practices are fraudulent. They have since been withdrawn.
TSEs include Alzheimer’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, mad cow disease and chronic wasting disease in deer.
Few, if any, mammals are immune. There is no cure. There is no species barrier. TSEs are caused by a deadly protein known as a prion (PREE-on). Prion disease is unstoppable and the pathogen spreads through the bodily fluids and cell tissue of its victims. Prions are in the blood, saliva, urine, feces, mucus, and bodily tissue of its victims.
“There is now real evidence of the potential transmissibility of Alzheimer’s,” says Thomas Wiesniewski M.D. a prion and Alzheimer’s researcher at New York University School of Medicine. “In fact, this ability to transmit an abnormal conformation is probably a universal property of amyloid-forming proteins.”
Wastewater treatment plants are spreading this infectious waste because they are incapable of stopping prions. All by-products and discharges from wastewater treatment plants are infectious waste, which are contributing to the global epidemic of neurodegenerative disease among humans, wildlife and livestock. Sewage sludge (biosolids) and wastewater reclamation are causing widespread contamination.
Deer, elk, moose and reindeer are now contracting prion disease from humans. To help cloak the epidemic, it’s called chronic wasting disease. When cattle are exposed to prions, it’s being called mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, which is just a clever way of saying transmissible spongiform encephalopathy). There is no species barrier to prion disease among mammals. A deadly prion is a deadly prion.
Prions are a real-world version of Pandora’s Box. Governments and industries that ignore these pathogens are reckless and responsible for the carnage.
When the U.S. government enacted the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002, it classified prions as select agents that pose an extreme risk to food, water and much more. Unfortunately, the CDC quietly took prions off the list about 10 years later because the regulation criminalized entire industries and several reckless practices.
Unfortunately, prions linger in the environment, homes, hospitals, nursing homes, dental offices and beyond infinitely. They migrate, mutate, multiply and kill with unparalleled efficiency. Prions defy all attempts at sterilization and inactivation.
Prions shed from humans are the most deadly. They demand more respect than radiation. They’re being ignored by regulators and industry alike. As such, food and water sources are being contaminated with the deadliest forms of prions. Municipal water systems can’t stop them from reaching taps. Filtration doesn’t phase them.
Infected humans and animals proceed to contaminate their homes and entire environment via bodily fluids, including blood, urine, saliva, mucus, and feces.
As such, victims also are contaminating sewage systems and any products (wastewater and biosolids) recycled from those facilities, which helps fuel the Alzheimer’s disease epidemic.
Although there are many causes and pathways contributing to prion disease, many pathways are being mismanaged around the globe. Not only are homes and hospitals exposed to the prion pathogen, so are entire sewage treatment systems. Wastewater treatment plants are prion incubators. Sewage sludge and wastewater pumped out and distributed on land spreads the disease.
Sewage treatment plants can’t detect or stop prions. Just ask the U.S. EPA. Dumping sewage sludge (biosolids) from billions of people on land and at sea spreads prions far and wide. It also spreads heavy metals, radioactive waste, carcinogens, pharmaceuticals and more.
Sewage sludge, biosolids, and reclaimed wastewater are recycling prions from victims into our food and water supplies. We’re dumping killer proteins on crops, parks, golf courses, gardens, ski areas, school grounds and beyond. Wind, rain and irrigation spread these contaminants and many more throughout our communities and watersheds.
The risk assessments prepared by the U.S. EPA for wastewater treatment and sewage sludge are flawed. Many risks are not addressed, including prions and radioactive waste. They don’t mention prions or radiation because there is no answer. Most nations are making the same mistake. Failure to account for known risks is negligent.
Crops for humans and livestock grown grown in sewage sludge absorb prions and become infectious. We’re all vulnerable to Alzheimer’s and other forms of prion disease right now due to widespread denial and mismanagement. It’s time to stop the land application of sewage sludge (LASS) in all nations. Safer alternatives exist.
Since the livestock industry is concerned with food safety and consumer health, please join us as we seek reform on other prion pathways that threaten herds, your income and your family’s health. If you are raising livestock and crops on land that has been treated with biosolids and reclaimed sewage water, please stop the practice immediately. Not only is it a proven prion pathway into food and water supplies, it may lead to condemning your land once the hazard is fully disclosed. Cattle and wildlife can contract prions from sewage on the soil.
