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From: TSS (216-119-144-68.ipset24.wt.net)
Subject: Re: SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Draft minutes of the open session of the 84th meeting held on 28th September 2004
Date: October 22, 2004 at 2:32 pm PST

In Reply to: SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Draft minutes of the open session of the 84th meeting held on 28th September 2004 posted by TSS on October 22, 2004 at 2:29 pm:

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

BSE prions propagate as either variant CJD-like or sporadic CJD-like
prion strains in transgenic mice expressing human prion protein

http://embojournal.npgjournals.com/cgi/content/full/21/23/6358

THE new findings of BASE in cattle in Italy of Identification of a
second bovine amyloidotic spongiform encephalopathy: Molecular
similarities with sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0305777101v1

Characterization of two distinct prion strains
derived from bovine spongiform encephalopathy
transmissions to inbred mice

http://vir.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/85/8/2471

Adaptation of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy agent to primates
and comparison with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: Implications for
human health

http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/041490898v1

In an experimental study of the transmissibility of BSE to the pig,
seven of 10 pigs, infected at 1-2 weeks of age by multiple-route
parenteral inoculation with a homogenate of bovine brain from
natural BSE cases developed lesions typical of spongiform
encephalopathy...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=npg&cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10684682&dopt=Abstract
THE recent discoveries of previously unidentified strains of
Scrapie such as 221C44 and the Nor9845;

FULL TEXT APPRX. 91 PAGES

UK Strategy for Research and
Development on Human and Animal
Health Aspects of Transmissible
Spongiform Encephalopathies

2004-2007

http://www.mrc.ac.uk/pdf-uk_strategy_v5.2.pdf

WHEN in fact, the findings from Marsh and the findings at
MISSION, TEXAS support even further evidence that there
are further strains of TSE in the USA besides that one
accidentally documented BSE case in Washington on
Dec. 23, 2003;

In Confidence - Perceptions of unconventional slow virus diseases of animals in the USA - Report of a visit to the USA - April-May 1989 - G A H
Wells [head of England's main veterinary lab]

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m11b/tab01.pdf

Evidence That Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy
Results from Feeding Infected Cattle

http://www.bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/mb/m09/tab05.pdf

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