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From: TSS (216-119-136-81.ipset16.wt.net)
Subject: Re: Occupational risk factors for the sporadic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (FULL TEXT)
Date: November 30, 2003 at 6:59 am PST

In Reply to: Occupational risk factors for the sporadic form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (FULL TEXT) posted by TSS on November 29, 2003 at 5:18 pm:

From: TSS (216-119-163-243.ipset45.wt.net)
Subject: ANOTHER FARMER KILLED BY CJD !!!
Date: April 23, 2003 at 8:45 am PST

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Subject: ANOTHER FARMER KILLED BY CJD !!!
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:45:34 -0500
From: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr."
To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
CC: CJDvoice , bloodcjd

FARMER KILLED BY CJD

10:30 - 22 April 2003

A father-of-two from Lincolnshire has died from suspected Variant
Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease.

Farmer David Fussey (34), who owned Manor Farm, Middle Rasen, near
Market Rasen, was diagnosed with the condition in October 2002.

He died last Tuesday with his wife Jess (28) at his side. He left two
children Tom (four) and Laura (two).

Today his wife paid tribute to her husband, who spent the last seven
months being cared for at Blenheim House Nursing Home, in Hemswell
Cliff, near Market Rasen.

She said: "David was a strong man who was dedicated to his family.

"He was very proud to be a farmer and was keen to work with the land and
protect the environment.

"He was also at the heart of the community and represented the village
football and dart teams."

Doctors do not know how Mr Fussey contracted the disease.

Mrs Fussey said she first noticed a change in her husband's behaviour in
December 2001.

"It was Christmas and usually David would be out having a few drinks but
instead he was withdrawn and tired," she said.

"He had recently started a second job building barns to supplement our
main income as arable farmers, so I just thought he was worn out."

Mr Fussey's condition continued to worsen and by July 2002 Mrs Fussey
started to notice signs that something was seriously wrong.

She said her husband had started to have hallucinations.

"One day he said he had spoken to staff who had not worked with us for
years," she said.

"Another time he was looking for a tractor we had sold some time ago."

Mr Fussey was admitted to Lincoln County Hospital on September 23. In
October the doctors told Mrs Fussey the news she had feared.

She said: "I was deeply upset and thought this shouldn't be happening to
me and my family.

"But in a strange way it was comforting because I had the answer to why
my husband had deteriorated."

Mrs Fussey said she was not looking for anybody to blame.

"It is hard to know how to feel," she said. "I think what has happened
is cruel and unfair but the disease does not discriminate.

"Nobody knows exactly how the condition is caught so until someone tells
me the definitive answer I am not prepared to be bitter."

Variant CJD was first reported internationally in 1996 and since then
127 people in Britain have died from the disease. Currently there are
seven British people thought to be infected.

The UK Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit at the University of
Edinburgh is researching the illness.

The unit's Professor James Ironside said: "Variant CJD is thought to be
contracted by the same agent that causes BSE in cattle.

"The most likely way humans would come into contact with the agent is
through the food chain. Fortunately the disease is very rare."

Mr Fussey's funeral will be held at 1pm on Friday at the St Peter and St
Paul Church, in North Street, Middle Rasen. Mr Fussey will be taken to
his funeral in a coffin on a trailer pulled by his favourite green John
Deere tractor.

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=57711&command=displayContent&sourceNode=57238&contentPK=5269534

Subject: Re: BSE aka MAD COW UPDATE (USA still not looking to find$$$)
Date: February 14, 2003 at 2:03 pm PST

In Reply to: BSE aka MAD COW UPDATE (USA still not looking to find$$$)
posted by
TSS on February 14, 2003 at 1:57 pm:

please note, there has never been transmission
studies done on man.

so, lets look at primates;

1: J Infect Dis 1980 Aug;142(2):205-8

Oral transmission of kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and scrapie to
nonhuman primates.

Gibbs CJ Jr, Amyx HL, Bacote A, Masters CL, Gajdusek DC.

Kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of humans and scrapie disease of
sheep and goats were transmitted to squirrel monkeys (Saimiri sciureus)
that were exposed to the infectious agents only by their nonforced
consumption of known infectious tissues. The asymptomatic incubation
period in the one monkey exposed to the virus of kuru was 36 months;
that in the two monkeys exposed to the virus of Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease was 23 and 27 months, respectively; and that in the two monkeys
exposed to the virus of scrapie was 25 and 32 months, respectively.
Careful physical examination of the buccal cavities of all of the
monkeys failed to reveal signs or oral lesions. One additional monkey
similarly exposed to kuru has remained asymptomatic during the 39 months
that it has been under observation.

PMID: 6997404

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6997404&dopt=Abstract

20 year old died from sCJD in USA in 1980 and a 16 year
old in 1981. A 19 year old died from sCJD in
France in 1985. There is no evidence of an iatrogenic
cause for those cases....

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1995/10/04004001.pdf

cover-up of 4th farm worker ???

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1995/10/23006001.pdf

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1995/10/20006001.pdf

CONFIRMATION OF CJD IN FOURTH FARMER

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1995/11/03008001.pdf

now story changes from;

SEAC concluded that, if the fourth case were confirmed, it would be
worrying, especially as all four farmers with CJD would have had BSE
cases on their farms.

to;

This is not unexpected...

was another farmer expected?

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1995/11/13010001.pdf

4th farmer, and 1st teenager

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1996/02/27003001.pdf

DAIRY FARM WORKERS ARE _5_ TIMES MORE LIKELY TO DEVELOP
CJD THAN THE AVERAGE POPULATION (but it's only sporadic ???)

Deer Hunters?

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1995/01/31004001.pdf

snip...

http://www.vegsource.com/talk/madcow/messages/9912501.html

TSS

• ANOTHER FARMER KILLED BY CJD !!!

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