Re: bird-flu article OT
- From: "Christina Websell" <spamfree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 18:22:44 -0000
"wafflycat" <w*a*ff£y£cat*@£btco*nn£ect.com> wrote in message
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> From today's Guardian newspaper in the UK. It makes a salient point or two
> IMO
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1642625,00.html
>
> Cheers, helen s
> (who also has not succumbed to CJD even though millions of we Brits should
> have by now... according to what was said back in the 80s)
I take your point Helen, and I think the media are making us too afraid of
bird flu and blowing it up out of all proportion.
However, I live very close to where a cluster of vCJD deaths occurred 4
years ago, and one of the victims aged 19 lived in my village. She had a
young baby :-(
vCJD is a very unpleasant death. Because of the job I did at the time I had
access to her records and a phrase from them has always stuck with me. It
said "S has proved a huge challenge to nurse as her disease progressed."
Just imagine what that means..
Here is the link to the Queniborough cluster of vCJD deaths
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1211192.stm
Despite what it says, it was eventually established that they had all eaten
beef from a particular butcher in Queniborough and further investigations
proved that the methods used to extract all available meat from beef
carcases in that shop were to blame.
They were what I call "old fashioned" butchers, they bought animals at
market and killed them themselves, then sold the meat.
Lots of people liked to buy locally produced meat, but the meat was pretty
expensive produced in that way.
I might easily have bought some beef from there myself, but couldn't afford
it at that time, luckily. Neither could one of my best friends who lives in
Queniborough. Phew.
The butchers shop had closed down before this all came to light. The father
had retired and his only son who was running the shop was sadly killed in a
road accident. If not, there may well have been more cases.
Tweed
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