Prion disease is now the fastest-growing cause of death in the world. As a result, more nations are increasing testing and surveillance. Many factors are contributing to the surge, including misinformation, disinformation and reckless public policies.

The medical term forALS, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease and related diseases is transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (prion disease). The operative word is “transmissible.” 

Despite the smoke and mirrors, the major difference between all of these forms of neurodegenerative disease is the species under attack by infectious prions. The primary difference between Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, for example, is the region of the brain that is under attack by the pathological protein.

Livestock, wildlife and humans have been transmitting prion disease back and forth for years. It’s a vicious circle that can’t be stopped.

An Israeli hospital introduced a new test to detect Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)—a rare brain disorder caused by an infectious protein called a prion. CJD in clinical environments has caused havoc and massive liabilities around the world due to the highly infectious nature of the disease.

In addition to CJD, prion disease includes Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease (GSS), Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and others. Many of these diseases are related in terms of cause and pathology. The biggest difference between most of the different diseases is the region of the brain that’s under attack. Most forms of neurodegenerative disease will eventually spread throughout the brain, which increases the range of symptoms.

Prions are a deadly and unstoppable form of protein that migrates, mutates, multiplies and kills with unparalleled efficiency. Prions were first discovered in the late 1980s as a protein-containing biological agent that replicates itself in living cells without nucleic acid. Prions are not alive, which means that they can’t be killed. Neutralizing them is virtually impossible. With each mutation, they become deadlier and more resistant.

A variety of factors can trigger neurodegenerative disease, including genetics, head trauma and poor nutrition. Today, however, the greatest factor behind the explosive growth is a neurotoxin that is spreading through our food, water, health systems and beyond.

Abnormal protein deposits spread in the brain, causing widespread damage that progresses rapidly. Symptoms include loss of intellect and memory, slurred speech and personality changes.

The disease is incurable and usually kills the sufferer within a year of onset. But diagnosis is considered important, as it avoids subjecting patients to often-painful treatments that fit other degenerative diseases but not CJD, giving them false hope, and prompts relatives who are at genetic risk to take preventative steps like screening their embryos.

CJD is disproportionately found among Jews of Libyan and Tunisian origin. It is estimated that there are thousands of carriers of the CJD-causing E200K mutation living in Israel, and children with just one carrier-parent can develop the incurable disease. A small minority of children of carriers develop the fatal disease.

Diagnosis is complex, often relying on a combination of tests. Brain biopsies aren’t used on living patients because of the contagious nature of the disease and even an MRI scan is not fully conclusive.

And while people whose heritage raises the risk of being a carrier are encouraged to screen, many don’t. When somebody develops CJD but the family never learns the identity of their disease, family members fail to learn they are at risk themselves, and that they have the option of taking measures to screen embryos of their offspring.

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center has now become one of a dozen hospitals internationally to run a test that gives high-accuracy diagnosis based on analysis of spinal fluid. It joins a few hospitals in the US, but is the first in Israel. “This method is the world’s first standalone test to give diagnoses of CJD with very high accuracy — sensitivity of 92 percent,” said Dr. Yifat Alkalai, director of Sourasky’s Clinical Immunology Laboratory.

She expects that her lab will now analyze hundreds of samples per year, using the method that was developed in Japan 11 years ago, but which hasn’t become widely used due to the high level of expertise needed to put it into practice.

As CJD is characterized by specific interactions between prions, testing can be carried out by observing a patient’s prions interacting with prions from another source. The real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QUIC) technique. The prions are observed in lab conditions for five days, and certain patterns of interaction, which mimic how the prions would behave on the brain, confirm CJD.

Dr. Atarashi and his colleagues developed the RT-QUIC assay. Quaking-induced refers to in vitro shaking, which researchers believe accelerates the reactions to produce results quickly. Atarashi developed the RT-QUIC assay as a researcher at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, in Montana. In 2008, his team successfully used it to screen cerebrospinal fluid taken from prion-infected hamsters.

CJD is a prion disease, in which a common protein known as a prion becomes an infectious variant. Prions cause fatal neurodegenerative disease in humans and other mammals by converting the cellular version of prion protein into a toxic form that erodes the brain and body. Prion disease often is described as a wasting disease that causes a loss of body mass and brain mass.

The medical term for prion disease is transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, which includes ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease. The operative word is transmissible. Victims generate a tremendous amount of infectious waste.

When we connect these dots, it’s easier to see several patterns emerging regarding the truth and public health. The connection between the rapid spread of TSE is right under our nose.

Byron Caughey, chief of prion/TSE research at the Rocky Mountain lab and a co-author of the two hamster studies, is encouraged by the application of the assay to human cerebrospinal fluid samples. “Of course it will also be important to detect prion diseases in other species, but human diagnosis is of pre-eminent importance,” Caughey says.

“The earlier you’re able to detect the presence of an infection in humans or animals, the more chance you have of preventing transmission to others and treating the disease in those who are infected,” Caughey says.

Most hospitals, neurologists, surgeons, coroners and even morticians are aware of the prion threat. Unfortunately, family members and caregivers are not being warned. Since deadly prions spread through the bodily fluids and tissue of those carrying prion disease (milk, blood, saliva, mucus, urine, feces, tissue and skin), that seems to be a problem. Prions shed from infected humans are highly transmissible.

Prion disease has killed millions of people around the world over the past century. It’s impacting more people and more families than ever today. It’s also killing livestock, wildlife and sea mammals. The connection is undeniable. Wastewater management, industrial agriculture and modern medicine are fueling the flames of this public health disaster.

Governments and industry are working diligently to keep prion disease off the public radar. The epidemic will persist. A cure does not exist. It’s virtually impossible to sterilize anything exposed to a person with prion disease. Hospital systems are now on high alert after several cases of prion exposure. Ignoring the truth about prions on a broader scale is making the pandemic worse. Since prion disease is a transmissible disease, prion contamination via bodily fluids and tissue is a public health threat. Food and water supplies are at risk. Unfortunately, prion disease is being grossly mismanaged around the world in people, wildlife and livestock.

Until recently, few have considered the possibility that Alzheimer’s disease is a transmissible disease.

This denial and misinformation has been fueling a public health crisis around the world for years.

Dr. Stanley Prusiner, an American neuroscientist from the University of California at San Francisco, earned a Nobel Prize in 1997 for discovering and characterizing prions and prion disease. President Obama awarded Prusiner the National Medal of Science in 2010 to recognize the importance of his research. Important reforms to policies to protect public health, however, have been elusive. Dr. Prusiner’s most recent study confirms that Alzheimer’s disease is a prion disease–also known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSEs). Once again, it demands reform on many levels to protect public health.

Learn more about Dr. Stanley Prusiner and the Nobel Prize for prion science and prion disease.

There are proven strategies to help avert neurodegenerative disease, including nutrition, exercise and prion aversion. There is not a cure for prion disease. Preview and order the eBook now to defend yourself and your family.

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Neurodegenerative disease is the fastest-growing cause of death on earth. Unfortunately, there isn’t a cure, but a special form of immunotherapy continues to offer hope.

Preclinical studies have demonstrated that monoclonal antibodies are effective against various forms of prion disease, which includes Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), ALS and Huntington’s disease.

The biggest difference between most of the different diseases is the region of the brain that’s under attack. Most forms of neurodegenerative disease will eventually spread throughout the brain, which increases the range of symptoms. Today, neurodegenerative disease is killing teenagers.

Prions also cause scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle (mad cow disease), and chronic wasting disease in cervids—deer, elk, moose and reindeer. It appears that all mammals are vulnerable. It’s more accurate and constructive to refer to the multiple forms as prion disease. There is no species barrier. There are thousands of mutations involved in the prion pandemic.

Prions are a deadly form of protein that accumulates in the bodies and brains of victims. Prions migrate, mutate, multiply and kill with unparalleled efficiency.

The clinical name for prion disease is transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE).

As the name implies, TSEs are transmissible because of the unstoppable prion protein. The key is to avoid prion disease.

A variety of factors can trigger neurodegenerative disease, including genetics, head trauma and high cholesterol. Today, however, the greatest factor behind the explosive growth is prion contamination in our food, water, health systems, and beyond.

The immune system recognizes foreign proteins as alien to the body. In response, the body produces specific antibodies to fight that infection. However, since prions are formed from the body’s own proteins, the immune system doesn’t produce lifesaving antibodies to stop them.

Once a person is infected, targeted nutrition offers the best hope for treatment. However, monoclonal antibody therapy shows a remarkable ability to purge prion proteins from the body and brain. PRN100 is an antibody specifically designed to bind to normal prion proteins. The intent is to prevent normal prions from being infected by pathogenic prions, which will hopefully stop the deadly prion infection. In theory, the process stimulates the patient’s immune system to join the battle. The treatment seems to slow disease progression, but it is unknown whether there is any hope for a cure.

Researchers treated six patients who had CJD with PRN100. Patients were treated intravenously with PRN100 every two weeks. Patients were treated for 7–260 days. Repeated dosing was well tolerated. No significant adverse reactions were seen. All patients showed progressive neurological decline on serial assessments with the MRC Scales.

“This is the first time a drug specifically designed to treat CJD has been used in humans and the results are very encouraging,” said Professor John Collinge, director of the MRC Prion Unit at UCL, who led the development of the PRN100 treatment. “This is an important step forward in targeting prion infections. The drug may have the potential to prevent the onset of symptoms in people at risk of prion disease due to genetic mutations or accidental prion exposure. It could contribute to the development of therapies for more common dementias, including Alzheimer’s disease.” 

The treatment appeared to be safe and reached encouraging CSF and brain tissue concentrations. These findings justify the need for clinical trials in patients with CJD, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.

Prion disease is now the fastest-growing cause of death in the world. The truth is more elusive than a cure. Many factors are contributing to the surge, including misinformation, disinformation and reckless public policies.

The medical term for prion disease is transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, which includes ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease. 

Despite the smoke and mirrors, the major difference between all of these forms of neurodegenerative disease is the species under attack by infectious prions. The primary difference between Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease, for example, is the region of the brain that is under attack by the pathological protein.

There are proven strategies to help avert neurodegenerative disease, including nutrition, exercise and prion aversion. There is not a cure for prion disease. Preview and order the eBook now to defend yourself and your family.

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Editor’s Note: In April 2019, Dr. Stanley Prusiner published conclusive evidence that Alzheimer’s disease is a prion disease. The implications are far-reaching. It impacts 50-100 million victims, their family, friends and caregivers. It’s time to reform policies and practices on many fronts to protect public health and animal health.

Neurodegenerative disease is the fastest-growing cause of death in the world. It will soon be the leading cause of death because of cover-ups and corruption at the highest levels.

The medical term for prion disease is transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, which includes ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease. The operative word is transmissible. Victims generate a tremendous amount of infectious waste. Prions are unstoppable, especially those shed from humans. Especially when risks are suppressed.

Prions migrate, mutate and multiply and they become more aggressive and more deadly along the way. TSE is striking down people of all ages. Rogue proteins also appear to play a role in the surging autism epidemic.

Dr. Stanley Prusiner, an American neuroscientist from the University of California at San Francisco, earned a Nobel Prize in 1997 for discovering and characterizing prions and prion disease. President Obama awarded Prusiner the National Medal of Science in 2010 to recognize the importance of his research. Important reforms to policies to protect public health, however, have been elusive.

Learn more about Dr. Stanley Prusiner and the Nobel Prize for prion science and prion disease.

“I learned that scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and kuru had all been shown to be transmissible by injecting extracts of diseased brains into the brains of healthy animals,” Prusiner said. “The infections were thought to be caused by a slow-acting virus, yet no one had managed to isolate the culprit. Whether changes in protein shape are responsible for common neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, remains unknown, but it is a possibility that should not be ignored.”

Meanwhile, government and industry are playing dumb in light of growing evidence about reckless policies and practices that are contributing to the epidemic. As such, misinformation and mismanagement are fanning the flames of a global public health disaster that’s spreading like wildfire. The human epidemic is so bad, it’s even killing wildlife. Sick animals are serving as the proverbial canary in a coal mine, while millions of people are being exposed and killed each year. Each victim spreads the disease.

“It is well known that CJD is transmissible via surgical or medical procedures involving prion-infected brain tissue. Our finding of infectious prions in skin is important since it not only raises concerns about the potential for disease transmission via common surgeries not involving the brain, but also suggests that skin biopsies and autopsies may enhance pre-mortem and post-mortem CJD diagnosis,” said Wenquan Zou, Associate Professor of Pathology and Neurology and Associate Director of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. Zou led the study involving a consortium of research groups and researchers across Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, the NIH, and the People’s Republic of China.

“The level of prion infectivity detected in CJD skin was surprisingly significant, but still much lower than that in CJD brains,” cautioned Qingzhong Kong, Associate Professor of Pathology and Neurology at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine. “Prion transmission risk from surgical instruments contaminated by skin prions should be much lower than that of instruments contaminated by brain tissue.” In the study, the Kong group assisted by the Zou group demonstrated that CJD patient skin is infectious using humanized transgenic mouse models.

Meanwhile, the medical world is protecting some people from infectious prion disease, but they aren’t protecting everyone from these neurotoxins. For example, neurologists rarely have physical contact with their patients. They are making diagnoses from across the room based on the presenting symptoms. If they observe a movement disorder, the diagnosis is Parkinson’s disease. If they see a memory disorder, it’s Alzheimer’s disease. If the person is totally incapacitated, the diagnosis is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It’s about as scientific as pinning the tail on the donkey with a blindfold on. Regardless of the diagnosis, these patients are all being sent home to die.

Family and caregivers are not warned about the risks of caring for someone with neurodegenerative disease. It’s criminal negligence at best. Even patient advocacy organizations, including the CJD Foundation, are failing to sound the alarm. They are merely trying to calm fears about the disease as opposed to prevent it. Read what the science says and then compare it to the deliberate lies issued by gatekeepers.

Prion Pathways

Blood Infectious: There have been two reported cases of transfusion-associated vCJD infection in UK. The presence of infectivity in the blood of patients affected by CJD has been established by scientists. As such, CJD might be transmitted by blood transfusion and/or the use of blood derived products. A team of scientists from INRA and ENV Toulouse (France), in collaboration with the Georg August University (Germany) and the Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal (Spain), characterized the presence and distribution of CJD agents (sporadic and variant forms) in the blood. They quantified, by bioassays, the levels of infectivity associated with different blood fractions from CJD affected patients.

The blood cells (white and red blood cells) and the plasma from a variant CJD affected patient contained infectivity. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131212095648.htm Despite these facts, there is very little screening going on and very little that can be done to prevent infected donors from contaminating blood supplies. Your best bet is to bank your own blood for future needs.

Eyes Infectious: By the time symptoms of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) are typically discovered, death is looming and inevitable. In a new study, researchers report evidence of the condition’s infectious agent in the eyes of deceased sCJD patients, making the eye a potential source for both early CJD detection and prevention of disease transmission. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181120125755.htm Again, it’s very difficult to screen out prion carriers.

Skin Infectious: Scientists have detected abnormal prion protein in the skin of several people who died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The scientists also exposed healthy mice to skin extracts from two CJD patients, and all developed prion disease. The study results raise questions about the possible transmissibility of prion diseases via medical procedures involving skin, and whether skin samples might be used to detect prion disease. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171122150914.htm

“It is well known that CJD is transmissible via surgical or medical procedures involving prion-infected brain tissue. Our finding of infectious prions in skin is important since it not only raises concerns about the potential for disease transmission via common surgeries not involving the brain, but also suggests that skin biopsies and autopsies may enhance pre-mortem and post-mortem CJD diagnosis,” said Wenquan Zou, Associate Professor of Pathology and Neurology and Associate Director of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Bone Marrow: We analyzed the bone marrow cells collected at autopsy from two individuals with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and, in both cases, cultured bone marrow cells were positive for infective prions. Bone marrow can be a helpful tool in the definitive diagnosis of prion disease at an earlier stage in the disease progression. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18976632 Don’t get a bone graft or a bone implant (dental implant). There is no way to tell how safe the cadavers are.

Human Growth Hormone: Worldwide, at least 226 cases of CJD, including 29 US cases, have been associated with administration of contaminated human growth hormone (hGH) from cadavers. Reported incubation periods ranged from 5 to 42 years (mean 17 years).

Urine: The misfolded and infectious prion protein that is a marker for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – linked to the consumption of infected cattle meat – has been detected in the urine of patients with the disease. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140807103650.htm

“Our findings open the possibility that some of the sporadic Alzheimer’s cases may arise from an infectious process, which occurs with other neurological diseases such as mad cow and its human form, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,” said Claudio Soto, Ph.D., professor of neurology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, part of UTHealth. “The underlying mechanism of Alzheimer’s disease is very similar to the prion diseases. It involves a normal protein that becomes misshapen and is able to spread by transforming good proteins to bad ones. The bad proteins accumulate in the brain, forming plaque deposits that are believed to kill neuron cells in Alzheimer’s.”

The extremely bad news here is that we are being duped into believing that recycling wastewater into drinking water is safe. It’s not. Prions in urine and feces and other sources are unstoppable.

Mucus: A nasal brush test can rapidly and accurately diagnose Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), an incurable and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disorder, according to a study. CJD is a prion disease. These diseases originate when, for reasons not fully understood, normally harmless prion protein molecules become abnormal and gather in clusters. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140807105545.htm also https://www.docseducation.com/blog/drilling-danger-%E2%80%93-prions-found-be-transmissible-aerosols

Milk: There is increasing evidence that prions are also present in body fluids and that prion infection by blood transmission is possible. The appearance of deadly prions in milk implies the possibility that milk of TSE-infected animals (from mothers or from livestock) serves as source of infection. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1762385/

“I thought it was counterproductive to keep calling these deadly proteins a virus when it wasn’t,” says Stanley B. Prusiner. “If you call it that and you believe it at some level, then you miss the next set of experiments.”

The word prion came from Prusiner’s pondering how “protein” and “infectious” might fit together. The operative word is “infectious.”

“What has made prions difficult to control is their infamous durability. Boil water for a few minutes, and all the bacteria and viruses will be gone. Not so for the prion: it will be just fine, ready to infect. How does it fare in a dry heat of 600 degrees C? No problem there, either. How about ionizing radiation? Bring it on,” said Philip Yam, author of the Pathological Protein and the former managing editor of ScientificAmerican.com. “The prion’s stubbornness caused many unfortunate medical mishaps in the days before researchers knew what they were dealing with. In the 1970s, electrodes used to treat epilepsy spread a human prion disease from one patient to another even though the electrodes had undergone standard sterilization and sat for 18 months before reuse. In a later test on monkeys, electrodes maintained their infectivity even after three bouts of sterilization. In the late 1980s, the processing of cadaver tissue—specifically, a brain lining called the dura mater that is sometimes used as a patch in neurosurgery—failed to inactivate prions from infected donors, leading to the transmission of a fatal brain disease to healthy recipients.

In decontaminating an area that once harbored infected farm animals (such as sheep), U.S. officials spray down hard surfaces with a caustic solution such as sodium hydroxide (better known as plumber’s lye), turn over several centimeters of soil to bury any prions on the surface and deem the land off-limits for years. Such draconian measures are one reason why farmers dread the diagnosis, even with government reimbursement for the loss. Of course, such techniques won’t work in wild animals, which spread prions via their urine, feces and saliva.”

Hospital Equipment: The World Health Organization recommends disposing of any suspected prion-contaminated equipment entirely. 

When a neurosuhttps://alzheimerdisease.tv/prion-disease-medical-dental-devices/rgery patient died from a rare and fatal brain disorder at a New Hampshire hospital, it sent a ripple of panic across the region, particularly for 15 people warned that they may have been exposed to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease through contaminated hospital surgical equipment. Everyone wondered who might spread this dire bug, and who might be at risk. But families of others who have suffered — and died — from the little-known but invariably deadly disease say that reaction is only the beginning of the fear, discrimination and rejection that CJD patients face.

Dentistry: A study has confirmed that prions – responsible for diseases like Mad Cow disease – can be transmitted and infective through aerosolized droplets of fluid, such as those produced during a dental procedure. Prions aerosolized by the action of the hand piece could potentially infect the doctor, staff and other patients.

Because there is a real risk of transmission of prion disease from dental instruments, appropriate family and medical history (including the risk for prion diseases) should be obtained from all patients, before all dental procedures. Dental professionals should maintain optimal and up-to-date standards of knowledge, infection control, and decontamination.

Dental professionals may be in a unique position of risk and transmission for prion diseases, a new study shows. While the 2003 Mad Cow scare is old news, Creutzfeldt–Jakob (CJD) disease is still a significant concern in medical facilities. The focus of this concern is preventing transmission of this incurable and dangerously resilient pathogen, which has been shown to linger on traditionally-sterilized equipment, leading to the iatrogenic infection of two otherwise healthy patients. As a result, decontamination measures were improved and no further patients have been infected while under medical care in the US.

However, dental professionals are still at risk for transmitting prion diseases, as prions can resist temperatures of up to 1,112 degrees Fahrenheit. This is far above the standard autoclave temperature, and furthermore, antibacterial agents like alcohol and even formaldehyde are ineffective. Only extremely high temperature treatment or certain chemical denaturants are effective in preventing the disease from spreading, most of which are not commonly kept in the dental office.

Prions resist the conventional sterilization procedures and hence the dentists must be aware of such diseases so as to opt standard methods of infection control and decontamination for such infectious agents. This review article divulge the dentists with a brief overview of the characteristics of prions, the risk of transmission and the implications for infection control in dentistry. As dental pulp originates from richly innervated neural crest cells, it is theoretically possible that the dental pulp of individuals infected with CJD may be infectious.

A communication in 2007 titled “Advise for dentists on re-use of endodontic instruments and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease” issued by the UK Department of Health has advised dentists to ensure single use of endodontic reamers and files as a precaution to reduce any potential risk of transmission of vCJD as endodontic files used in the treatment of pulp cavity contain blood and peripheral nerves known to carry the PrPs and their intricate surface topography enable to trap the proteins. 

The dental professionals should have up-to-date knowledge about transmission, diagnosis, infection control and decontamination procedures regarding prion diseases. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4860911/

Aerosols: A study has confirmed that prions – responsible for diseases like Mad Cow – can be transmitted and infective through aerosolized droplets of fluid, such as those produced during a dental procedure. https://www.docseducation.com/blog/drilling-danger-%E2%80%93-prions-found-be-transmissible-aerosols

Coroners: Coroners are very aware of prion disease and prion infectivity. Across the country, funeral homes and crematoriums are routinely refusing to accept the bodies of CJD patients out of fear of infection, despite health guidelines that say that — with standard precautions — embalming and burial is perfectly safe. 

“It happens a lot,” said Robert Kassai, a New Jersey funeral director who also sits on the board of the CJD Foundation, an advocacy group. “There are many, many instances where families call me saying they’ve been turned away.”

Some families report that their loved ones who died from CJD were removed from the hospital, placed in double body bags and taken directly to a crematorium with no warning. Others report that funeral workers forced pallbearers to wear medical gloves and told mourners to stand far back from the gravesite and to disperse quickly after the ceremony. 

The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends placing the body in a leak proof pouch prior to moving. The bag should be lined with absorbent material to prevent leakage of body fluids. In instances where there is excess fluid, a double bag can be utilized. After transporting, all surfaces (i.e. stretchers, cots) should be disinfected with bleach.

Avoid unnecessary manipulation of the body that would force purging of body fluids and risk opening of incision sites. If warranted, the casket can be lined with a leak proof sheet. An open casket for viewing should not be prohibited. However, if an autopsy has been performed, family members of CJD patients should be advised to avoid superficial contact (such as touching or kissing the patient’s face) with the body.

The Misinformation

For the sake of argument, let’s start with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Let’s hear what the government experts are saying about the most aggressive disease and then let’s compare those statements with the science that we just reviewed:

NIH: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, fatal brain disorder that can be experimentally transmitted from one animal to another, as well as from human patients to other humans and animals. It affects about one person in every one million people each year worldwide. The low random incidence of CJD indicates that person-to-person transmission probably does not occur through normal contact. There is no evidence that CJD is contagious through casual contact with someone who has CJD. Spouses and other household members of people with sporadic CJD have no higher risk of contracting the disease than the general population.  However, exposure to brain tissue and spinal cord fluid from infected persons should be avoided to prevent transmission of the disease through these materials.

To protect themselves, health-care professionals should employ universal precautions when handling blood and spinal fluid samples from patients with CJD. When performing medical/surgical procedures and post-mortem examinations, the most important safety rule is to avoid self-induced injury from instruments used in the course of removing and processing tissues for pathological examination. In particular, avoid contact between contaminated material and skin with cuts or abrasions.

Normal sterilization procedures such as boiling or irradiating materials do not prevent transmission of CJD.

Whenever possible, contaminated instruments and other materials should be discarded as medical pathological waste or destroyed by incineration. When this is not possible, special disinfection methods may be employed. Re-used instruments and materials should be kept moist until they can be appropriately decontaminated and cleaned. Detailed guidelines for infection control during patient care, for disinfection and disposal of CJD-contaminated material, and for performing an autopsy and embalming are available in the document, “WHO Infection Control Guidelines for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies.”

CDC: Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans and animals. They are distinguished by long incubation periods, characteristic spongiform changes associated with neuronal loss, and a failure to induce inflammatory response.

The causative agents of TSEs are believed to be prions. The term “prions” refers to abnormal, pathogenic agents that are transmissible and are able to induce abnormal folding of specific normal cellular proteins called prion proteins that are found most abundantly in the brain. The functions of these normal prion proteins are still not completely understood. The abnormal folding of the prion proteins leads to brain damage and the characteristic signs and symptoms of the disease. Prion diseases are usually rapidly progressive and always fatal. Website promotes information that is 20 years old.

Mayo Clinic: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease may occur spontaneously, be inherited, or be transmitted by contact with infected tissue, such as during a transplant or from eating contaminated meat. People have developed CJD after being exposed to infected human tissue during a medical procedure, such as a cornea or skin transplant. Also, because standard sterilization methods do not destroy abnormal prions, people have developed CJD after undergoing brain surgery with contaminated instruments.

The condition causes personality changes, anxiety, depression, and memory loss, usually within a few months. Many people lapse into coma. Because no effective treatment exists, the focus is on alleviating pain and relieving symptoms.

The UK (NHS): The U.K., as well as some other countries, also has certain restrictions regarding blood donations from people with a risk of exposure to CJD or vCJD. In theory, CJD can be transmitted from an affected person to others, but only through an injection or consuming infected brain or nervous tissue. There’s no evidence that sporadic CJD is spread through ordinary day-to-day contact with those affected or by airborne droplets, blood or sexual contact. 

But in the UK, variant CJD has been transmitted on four occasions by blood transfusion. Sterilization methods used to help prevent bacteria and viruses spreading also aren’t completely effective against the infectious protein (prion) that causes CJD. But tightened guidelines on the reuse of surgical equipment mean that cases of CJD spread through medical treatment (iatrogenic CJD) are now very rare. There are also measures in place to prevent variant CJD spreading through the food chain and the supply of blood used for blood transfusions.

Hong Kong: The mode of transmission of sporadic CJD is unknown. To prevent the disease from spreading, tissue or organ transplant from any CJD patients or re-use of potentially contaminated surgical instruments should be avoided.

Meanwhile, in light of all of these precautions, no one is saying a word to the families of the victims. Many CJD patients are sent home to die with their friends and families in close quarters. It’s criminal.

Diagnoses

The only way to absolutely confirm a diagnosis of CJD is by brain biopsy or autopsy. Most cases are going undiagnosed and misdiagnosed.

According to neuroscientist Dr. Laura Manuelidis, at least 25 percent of Alzheimer’s diagnoses are actually CJD. That means that there are millions of people walking around with this highly infectious prion disease. They are following in the footsteps of millions of others who died ahead of them. As a result, we our world is more contaminated with these neurotoxins than we realize. It’s getting worse by the day with mismanagement. Of course, caregivers and others are caught in the crossfire.

Without dispute, CJD is extremely infectious to caregivers and loved ones, but it has not been declared a reportable disease across the U.S. and many other nations.

Prions In Sewage and Wastewater Reclamation: Remember, infectious prions are in the bodily fluids of all victims. Blood, urine, feces, saliva, skin and cell tissue are all infected. Sewage is now a weapon of mass destruction.

“Our results suggest that if prions enter municipal wastewater treatment systems, most of the agent would bond to sewage sludge, survive anaerobic digestion, and be present in treated biosolids,” said prion researcher Joel Pedersen at the University of Wisconsin. “Land application of biosolids containing prions represents a route for their unintentional introduction into the environment. Our results emphasize the importance of keeping prions out of municipal wastewater treatment systems.”

Pedersen also found that sewage treatment does not inactivate prions. Therefore, prions are lethal, mutating, migrating and multiplying everywhere sewage is dumped. The risk assessments prepared by the U.S. EPA for wastewater treatment and sewage sludge are flawed and current practices of recycling this infectious waste is fueling a public health disaster. 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. 

Grains, Fruits, Vegetables: Grass plants can bind, uptake and transport infectious prions from the soil, according to researchers. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190122125537.htm

The medical term for prion disease is transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, which includes ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease. The operative word is transmissible.

The incubation period of prion diseases can be decades. Prion carriers don’t always know they are infectious when operated on, and hospitals don’t routinely use the extreme sterilization protocols recommended for prions.

“You can’t kill a protein,” said UCSF’s Kurt Giles, DPhil, associate professor of neurology, IND researcher and senior author on the second of the two new studies. “And it can stick tightly to stainless steel and other surfaces, even when the surgical instrument is cleaned. As a result, he said, “We’re advocating a precautionary approach. People are living longer. There could be undiagnosed neurodegenerative diseases that – if they’re caused by prions – mean infection could be a real worry.”

Aggregates of prions form amyloids. But amyloids also are proteins called amyloid-beta, tau, and alpha-synuclein. The accumulation of these proteins in amyloids — as plaques, tangles, and Lewy bodies — are signature indications, and perhaps causes, of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases. These amyloids, like prions, stick to surgical instruments and survive standard sterilization procedures. They, too, are hard to stop.

The only thing that keeps such amyloids from being considered prions has been infectivity. But recently, at least one team of scientists found circumstantial, controversial — and stomach-churning — evidence that amyloids from patients with these diseases may be infective. What if Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease can be transmitted via surgical equipment or even utensils at restaurants?

Even wildlife and sea mammals are contracting brain disease from people because of the dumping of infectious waste on farms, ranches and forests. In addition to permanently contaminating the soil and water runoff, research has found that plants/crops grown in infectious prions uptake those prions and become infectious.

Your life might depend on who you believe and what you do about it. As you can see, there is a pattern. Science says one thing, while government and industry say another. Think for yourself. Prions + pathways = victims. You don’t get a second chance with prion disease.

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The following story is about a 62-year-old American woman from Washington state. She was diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in September 2012. She died on Thanksgiving day in her husband’s arms at home near Spokane.

As this testimonial describes, even the most deadly form of dementia, CJD, is misunderstood and mismanaged. The highly infectious patient was never quarantined and caregivers, including family, were not warned about deadly and highly contagious prions.

As Dwight, the surviving husband, explained, “I would like this story told because I believe this is a MUCH BIGGER problem than we know. None of Anna’s doctors ever mentioned anything about the prion risks to other people.” The following commentary reflects the opinions and perspectives of Mr. Dwight Henderson as he reflects on his wife’s final months and his noble battle to stand by her side at all costs. Unfortunately, millions of others like them have been battling the mystery of dementia and prion disease in the dark. This is Dwight’s opening salvo to shed some light on the crisis for others to see.

Anna passed away from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

In my opinion, she probably got it from eating meat products in our food supply (in all fairness, there are many prion pathways into our lives–most of which do include food and water. However, medical procedures and medical facilities also represent a prion transmission risk to worker. Mrs. Henderson worked cleaning the operating room at a local hospital. In the author’s opinion, she likely contracted prion disease in one of the operating rooms). It’s a terrible way to die. It attacks and destroys the brain, travels down the spinal cord, attacks the nerves, and then starts shutting down the vital organs. The doctors told me that there is no treatment or cure for it.

At the end of September, Anna started having trouble walking and standing. She started getting confused and had trouble seeing. She could not hold still. While trying to sleep, she threw herself out of bed at least three times onto the floor. I moved a mattress to the living room floor so she could sleep there without hurting herself. I started dressing her and put on her makeup because she couldn’t see well enough to do it. I fed her, and had to hold her drinks because she could not hold them without spilling them on herself. I helped her walk by holding her up. At one point, I gave her piggyback rides up and down the stairs. She only weighed 98 pounds.

This went on until we went to the doctor to get her checked out. Her doctor saw her on October 12, 2012. He sent Anna to Sacred Heart Emergency to get her blood sugar and pounding heart stabilized. Anna was discharged that night and we went back home.

Anna saw her doctor again on November 2, 2012 and he couldn’t get Anna to respond to him. The doctor sent her back to Sacred Heart Emergency for more testing. The hospital checked her in for several days.

She was sleeping too much. She had nightmares and threw herself around in bed. The nurses liked her and nicknamed her “wiggle worm.” I stayed at the hospital as much as possible learning how to feed her and care for her. Anna was tested for everything imaginable. She had at least three MRIs, two CAT scans, two spinal taps and so on. She was discharged on November 8, after almost one week.

While at home on the evening of November 9, 2012, Anna became unresponsive. I washed her face with cold towels and tried to get her to wake up. After about thirty minutes, I called 911. They sent an ambulance, two fire trucks, and crew to check her out. They couldn’t get her to wake up. They sent her back to Sacred Heart Emergency. I asked the doctor there what was wrong with her. He said that she had Mad Cow disease. This was the first time I heard this possible diagnosis. I asked the doctor how she could get Mad Cow. He said, “from food.”

He admitted her into the hospital from the emergency room. I spent most of the night with her.

On November 10, 2012, a doctor walked into Anna’s room and asked me if I would talk to him in private. He told me that Anna had Mad Cow disease and there is no treatment or cure. He said that she would not make it through the holidays—it is a very nasty disease. He said it would attack her brain, travel down the spinal cord and destroy her nervous system. Then it will shut down her vital organs. He said prepare for the worst, it will get real ugly. Make her funeral plans.

The doctor and I signed a Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form, for comfort measures only. They discharged Anna after a few more nights in the hospital and we moved her to a nursing home. I stayed by her side almost all of the time. I wanted to be with her as much as possible.

I would wake her, dress her, put her in her wheelchair, comb her hair, brush her teeth, and take her to the dining room for her meals. She was on a soft food diet because she couldn’t chew her food. When I put a spoonful of food in her mouth I had to tell her to swallow. Near the end, she only ate about one spoon of food each meal. She consumed few liquids.

The Hospice Manual said that when people reach the end of life, they eat and drink less and sleep a lot because they are shutting down. Her first few days at the nursing home she slept a lot in her wheelchair. She began screaming out loud, thrashing about, and having seizures. I could tell that she was losing the fight more and more each day. The nurses gave her sedatives to calm her down.

On November 21, Anna had an appointment with her neurologist. While we were with him, a nurse handed him a lab report. He read it and said she tested positive and confirmed the earlier diagnosis of the other doctors. He said that she has Mad Cow disease and it could be from eating infected food. The doctor didn’t mention the possibility that she contracted the fatal disease at the hospital, while cleaning up contaminated operating rooms and surgical devices.

He said that she has about 30 days left to live. He recommends immediate hospice care.

I asked him for a copy of the lab report and we left. We went back to the nursing home. After a couple of days I, noticed that Anna was getting worse. On November 23, I asked about getting Anna discharged to home because she wanted to be at home when she passed. The young lady there in the office said “Oh, there is no way we can discharge her before next Wednesday 11/28/12 too much paper work.”

I knew this was total BS. I called Anna’s doctor. Within an hour Hospice walked in with doctors orders to have Anna discharged. The lady in the admin office had Anna’s discharge papers done in less than an hour. As soon as Anna’s hospital bed and wheelchair were delivered to my house, on November 24, an ambulance brought her home. Her condition was dire.

I told Anna that she was home. I put her puppies in her lap. Anna had a real peaceful look on her face. All the time she was in the hospital and nursing home she had a look of distress on her face. I fed her about a spoonful of baby food and some water that night. The next morning, I woke her up, just before 7 A.M. I dressed her in her favorite blouse, her favorite Pink Panther pants and shoes, sat her in her wheelchair, and combed her hair. It was now 7:20 A.M., I was ready to feed her breakfast when she took a deep breath and died in my arms.

I called the hospice nurse to come over quick. She came and checked Anna’s vitals and confirmed that she had passed. The nurse called the coroner and funeral home for me.

On December 6, at 5:50 P.M., Anna’s Neurologist called and wanted to know how Anna was doing. I told him Anna died on November 25th. He said an autopsy was not necessary in this case because of her positive tests. He said the State was tracking these conditions and may contact me later on. We talked a little more and said goodbye.

Dwight’s Post-Mortem Conversation With Hospital Administrator

Spokane Regional Health contacted me because I have been telling people what happened to Anna. Spokane Regional Health, who is responsible for keeping our food safe is brushing it off as no big deal, and that it never happened. They want me to shut up. Below is a conversation I had with an employee there.

On December 18, Spokane Regional Health-Dorothy Macakeran, (Epidemiologist) left a message saying she wanted to talk to me about Anna’s death. She asked me to call her back. On December 19, I called Dorothy back.

Dorothy: “Dwight, I would like to ask you some questions about Anna and how she died.”

Dwight: “That’s fine.”

Dorothy: “Do you have any idea how or where she got this disease? Did she or any of her family members have mental health problems or CJD history? Do you know anyone who has had it in the past?”

Dwight: “No. Where do you think it came from?”

Dorothy said: “Well, we are not sure. Prion disease is a mystery.”

Dwight: “Let me stop you right there. First of all, she had Mad Cow Disease, and it came from the food supply.”

Dorothy: “We don’t know that for sure, and prions can’t be pinned down.”

Dwight: “Anna had two spinal taps and tested positive both times for CJD—often called Mad Cow disease. This report is from The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center. I have the lab report right here in front of me. I also have three statements from three different doctors.”

Dorothy: “I don’t know where the doctors got that from.”

Dwight: “Dorothy, are you a doctor?”

Dorothy: “No.”

Dwight: “Dorothy, what is your title there at work, and what is your degree?”

Dorothy: “I am a Epidemiologist, I do investigations, and I have a BS degree.”

Dwight: “Dorothy, I totally disagree with your position on Anna’s death. I accept all three doctor’s diagnoses as fact.”

Dorothy: “I don’t know how those doctors came up with that!”

Dwight: “Are you over ruling all three doctors and their diagnosis?”

Dorothy: (No answer.)

Dwight: “If I were you, I would focus your investigation on the food supply.”

Dorothy: “Where did she eat at?”

I said: “Restaurants, here in Spokane, mostly around the local area, such as the Broadway Truck Stop, Sherries, Jack In The Box. The hospital cafeteria.”

Dorothy asked: “Did Anna ever have cataract surgery with cornea donations from donors?”

Dwight: “No, she had a lens replacement from a manufacturer, not a human donor.”

Dorothy: “Did Anna ever eat animal brains?”

Dwight: “No.”

Dorothy:  “Did Anna ever eat any wild game such as deer?”

Dwight: “No. Never.”

Dorothy: “How long has Anna lived in Spokane?”

Dwight: “Since 1975, and before that when she was a young girl. We lived for a little while in Seattle/Tacoma.”

Dorothy: “Where was she born?”

Dwight: “She was born in Austria and came to the U.S. when she was five years old.”

Dorothy: “Did she ever go out of the country?”

Dwight: “Never.”

Dorothy: “Cook at home?”

Dwight: “Hardly ever. Awhile back it was in the news here in Washington state that there was a Mad Cow outbreak here.”

Dorothy: “It was just a minor, isolated, incident, and nothing to worry about!”

Dwight: “Dorothy, it’s easy for you to say that it was a “minor, isolated incident! I think it was a VERY SERIOUS incident! My wife lost her life, and it came from the food supply here in Spokane! How many other people have Mad Cow from the food we eat? I’m REALLY PISSED OFF that this happened to Anna. I thought our food supply was supposed to be safe!”

We bid each other farewell. During our conversation, I had this overwhelming feeling that Dorothy was trying to trip me up. It seems that she’s trying to brush it off as if it didn’t happen. Seems like a cover-up! I know I, can’t bring Anna back, but I’m concerned about the food safety and if it’s being monitored like it should. Kind of scary, wondering how many other people might be sick from Mad Cow and prions.

Post-Mortem Conversation With Washington State Department of Health

On December 22, at 11:30 A.M. (Saturday), Dr. Kathy Lofy, Medical Epidemiologist at Washington State Department of Health, called me.

Dr. Lofy: “Dwight, could I ask you some questions about Anna’s death?”

Dwight: “Yes.”

Dr. Lofy: “Going over Anna’s records here we can’t really determine which type of CJD that she had for sure.”

Dwight: “What do you mean by that?”

Dr. Lofy: “Well, there are three different types of prion disease. One type is sporadic. The second type is genetic. The third type is called variant. I believe that Anna might have died from the sporadic kind, and we do not know that much about it at the present time.”

Dwight: “How do you know Anna had that type if you don’t know that much about it?”

Dr. Lofy said: “Our tests indicate that could be the type.”

Dwight: “Then Dr., if you don’t know that much about the sporadic type. Then, that means you cannot rule that one out of the food supply either. Is that correct?”

Dr. Lofy: (No answer.)

Dr. Lofy: “With the variant type, the patient symptoms start about twelve to fourteen months before the symptoms worsen.”

Dwight: “Anna’s symptoms started about two years before. She was having trouble walking and she kept falling. She said she felt lopsided while she walked. When she went grocery shopping she would hang on to a grocery cart to help her walk.”

Dwight: “I have the lab report right here in front of me and it says she was tested positive for CJD—Mad Cow Disease. In fact, she was tested twice. Both times positive for CJD/Mad Cow Disease.”

Dr. Lofy: “Do you know Dr. Pugh, Anna’s Neurologist?”

Dwight: “Yes.”

Dr. Lofy: “I spoke to Dr. Pugh, and he said in his notes that he did tell you that Anna had Mad Cow disease and he said it did come from the food supply. After I spoke to Dr. Pugh he decided to change his statement to say it could be the sporadic type of prion.”

Dwight: “Dr. Lofy, I was there with Dr. Pugh during Anna’s appointment. While talking to Dr. Pugh, his nurse opened the door and handed him the lab report, which stated beyond a shadow of a doubt that Anna has tested positive for CJD, Mad Cow. Dr. Pugh read the lab findings to me and sat it down in his lap and said. ‘Dwight she has CJD which is the human version of Mad Cow disease.’ I asked the doctor if this could be the tip of an iceberg for the spread of this kind of disease?  Dr. Pugh said, ‘yes. This comes from our food supply.” Dr. Pugh said, when an infected cow is butchered, reprocessed, and is put back into more cow feed, then this infects the cows that feed from that source. I was told by three Doctors on separate dates and times that Anna had Mad Cow disease.”

Dr. Lofy: “There are safeguards and tests in place for CJD.”

Dwight: “I need the name of the test you use. What safeguards are you talking about?”

Dr. Lofy said: “Uh, I don’t know. I don’t know exactly how to answer that.”

Dwight: “Then how do you know? How can you say that our food supply is safe? I’m not a doctor, but, if I were you, I would focus your investigation on our food supply here in Washington.”

Dwight: “Dr. Lofy, this is Saturday. Why are you calling today? Is it because the media called you?”

Dr. Lofy: “Yes, they called.”

Dwight: “Dr. I’m thinking that you people doing damage control and are trying to cover your asses and point this Mad Cow in a different direction. Dr. this is no time to worry about covering your butts. This is too serious of a matter for that. There could be a lot more people out there coming down with this disease if action isn’t taken. Back some years ago in the newspapers it was reported that a Mad Cow disease outbreak happened here in Washington. It was also reported that you, the WA. State Government was going to protect us from this disease, and that we had nothing to worry about. Is that correct?”

Dr. Lofy: “Yes, and that it did in fact happen.”

Dwight: “How do you go about keeping our food safe from Mad Cow?”

Dr. Lofy: “The cattlemen are suppose to test their cattle for BSE.”

Dwight: “How do you know for sure that they are in fact testing their cattle? Do you check them out or what?”

Dr. Lofty: “No, not that I know of.”

Dwight: “Dr. Lofy, Do you check out slaughterhouses, and meat departments in grocery stores for Mad Cow disease? And what kind of tests do you do to detect Mad Cow? If you do test, what is the name of the test?”

Dr. Lofy: “We don’t do that.”

Dwight: “Then Dr., how can you say that our food is safe and that Mad Cow does not come from the food?”

Dwight: “Doctor, I lost my wife and I know that I can’t bring her back. If I didn’t bring this up and you don’t act to stop it, and people started coming down with this disease it would be a crime.”

Dr. Lofy then went into crisis management mode and asked me some of the same questions that Dorothy from Spokane Regional Health asked. “Did Anna ever eat deer or wild game? Did she ever travel out of the country? Etc. They were desperate to find a possible prion source in Anna’s life that could take the heat off of the food supply.

Dwight: “Dr. Lofy, I know as a fact that Mad Cow disease is found in the spinal cords of animals. When the Mad Cow outbreak happened here in Washington, the order was put out to meat cutters and slaughterhouse employees, ‘Do Not Cut through the spinal cords of animals while processing meat items.’ If the animal is infected, the disease will spill into and infect the rest of the meat.

BACKGROUND: Dwight was a meat cutter for 33 years until he retired. As he said, “If the beef industry tries to baffle us with BS, it better be good, because I’ve been around the block a few times and I have worked for the U.S. Government Commissary System as a meat cutter, Yokes Foods Meat Dept., Trading Company Meat Dept., Swanson’s Meat Dept., and briefly IGA Meat Dept. There was a Mad Cow breakout here in WA. Some years back when I was working for the Commissary. At that time we were told to not cut through the spinal cord, and if we could, try to pull it out before processing. Many times parts of the spinal cord were still visible on the meat products. This was because at the slaughtering plants, when they used their saws, they often missed the mark while splitting the beef carcasses.”

Dwight: “The spinal cord of a cow runs from the neck, which is the chuck area, all the way down the center of the back bone to the upper part of the rump area just behind the top sirloin. This is about six feet long. How do you check to see if the cutters are doing this properly? Do you do this?”

Dr. Lofy: “No, we do not.”

I said: “I am worried about our food supply, aren’t you?”

Dr. Lofty: “Yes, we are worried about it too.”

Dwight: “Dr., I want to leave on good terms with you, have a good Christmas.” (The Dr. gave me her phone number and said goodbye.)

The first case of Mad Cow disease in the United States was detected in the state of Washington on Christmas Eve 2003. Allegedly, some of that animal ended up in the local food supply, which triggered lawsuits.

Meanwhile, one of Anna’s coworkers at the hospital developed CJD a few months earlier. She also died within a few months.

Anna worked at the hospital for years, where she cleaned the operating room. Unfortunately, Anna and her coworker could have been exposed to prions in the hospital.

Anna had prion exposure when cleaning the operating room, where infectious prion tissue and fluids are typically encountered and never eliminated. Of course, these two women could have been exposed to dozens of other sources of prion contamination, including each other. The fact that these women worked together and died within three months of each other can’t be ignored.

Summary:

Prion disease is now the fastest-growing cause of death in the world. The truth is more elusive than a cure. Many factors are contributing to the surge, including misinformation, disinformation and reckless public policies.

The medical term for prion disease is transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, which includes ALS, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease. The operative word is transmissible. Victims generate a tremendous amount of infectious waste.

There are proven strategies to help avert neurodegenerative disease, including nutrition, exercise and prion aversion. There is not a cure for prion disease. Preview and order the eBook now to defend yourself and your family.

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