Prions Fueling A Public Health Disaster
Urine can be used to test for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). Unfortunately, it also is a pathway that spreads prion disease among mammals.
The Medical Research Council team is working on a simple test. They claim that their prototype test still needs honing before it could be used routinely. Currently there is no easy test available for this rare but fatal brain condition. Instead, doctors have to take a sample of spinal fluid or brain tissue, or wait for a post-mortem after death. What they look for is tell-tale deposits of abnormal proteins called prions, which cause the brain damage.
It is also possible to detect prions in urine. This might offer a way to diagnose CJD rapidly and earlier. Urine also is a pathway for disease transmission.
CJD is a rare, but fatal degenerative brain disorder caused by abnormal proteins called prions that damage brain cells. In the 1990s it became clear that a brain disease could be passed from cows to humans (it can also be passed from humans to other mammals). Since then, officials have kept a close check on how many people have become sick or died from CJD. There is no known cure.
The study looked at urine samples from 162 people. Of these:
- 91 were healthy controls
- 34 had neurological disease that was not thought to be caused by CJD
- 37 had a diagnosis of CJD (20 of these were sporadic CJD)
The urine test gave no “false-positive” results – meaning it did not falsely suggest there was CJD in any of the patients known not to have the disease. But it was less reliable when it came to detecting actual cases. It accurately detected just under half of the sporadic CJD patients and even fewer of the vCJD patients. The researchers hope they will be able to improve the test further so it can reliably detect all types of CJD.
The earlier a patient can be diagnosed the more effective any treatment is likely to be. This test could be a critical step forward.”
Prion disease is a spectrum disease that includes Alzheimer’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, mad cow disease, chronic wasting disease and is likely a contributing factor in the global rise in autism. Victims are infectious long before they exhibit symptoms. Prions are in the urine, feces, blood, saliva, mucus, skin and cell tissue of all victims–all human byproducts that are washed, dumped, or flushed down sinks and toilets.
Misinformation and mismanagement of sewage and wastewater are contributing to the global epidemic in neurodegenerative disease. As more people get the disease, the waste stream becomes even deadlier. It’s time to regulate wastewater streams, including biosolids, as infectious waste and it’s time to enforce the Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002.
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Gary Chandler is a prion expert. He is the CEO of Crossbow Communications, author of several books and producer of documentaries about health and environmental issues around the world. Chandler is connecting the dots to the global surge in neurodegenerative disease, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, chronic wasting disease and other forms of prion disease. The scientific name for prion disease is transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. The operative word is “transmissible.”
Cynthia Hodge
My best friend has just been diagnosed with CJD. He’s in hospital right now.
My Dad died with Alzheimer’s and Lewy Bodies.
What does one do now with a CJD diagnosis at this point?
Cynthia Hodge
My friend had his first COVID shot on a Thursday and ended up hospitalized on Tuesday and spent 15 days I hospital before receiving a CJD diagnosis. Is there any correlation that could have spiked the prion disease that quickly?