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HA HA HA, your kidding right! The USA Federal Gov. and ALL HUMAN TSEs MUST BE MADE REPORTABLE NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALLY NIH sends mixed signals on CJD brains Washington, DC, Apr. 7 (UPI) -- Terry Singeltary, whose mother passed away from a type of CJD in 1997, said the NIH should use the samples for scientific research, not just store them in freezers. Both Singeltary and Ewanitz said they would feel more reassured if Major verified in writing the collection will not be destroyed. "I would go further and ask Major what he plans to do with them," Singeltary said. "If the samples are just going to sit up there and go bad, then they should give them out to researchers looking for cause and cure." snip... http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050407-110535-2570r.htm United Press International: French woman may have had vCJD in 1971 Groups seek to save NIH brain collection Groups seek to save NIH brain collection - (United Press ... The U.S. government's monitoring system for cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal human brain illness, could be missing tens of thousands of victims, scientists and consumer advocates have told United Press International. ... http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030721-102924-4786r By Steve Mitchell WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (UPI) -- The federal laboratory in Ames, Iowa, that conducts all of the nation's tests for mad cow disease has a history of producing ambiguous and conflicting results -- to the point where many federal meat inspectors have lost confidence in it, Department of Agriculture veterinarians and a deer rancher told United Press International. The veterinarians also claim the facility -- part of the USDA and known as the National Veterinary Services Laboratories -- has refused to release testing results to them and has been so secretive some suspect it is covering up additional mad cow cases. ... http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040209-061848-3665r By Steve Mitchell WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Federal agriculture officials did not test any commercial cattle for mad cow disease through the first seven months of 2003 in Washington state -- where the first U.S. case of the disease was detected last month -- according to records obtained by United Press International. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's records of mad cow screenings, conducted on 35,000 animals between 2001 to 2003, also reveal no animals were tested for the past two years at Vern's Moses Lake Meats, the Washington slaughterhouse where the mad cow case was first detected. In addition, no mad cow tests were conducted during the two-year period at any of the six federally registered slaughterhouses in Washington state. This includes Washington's biggest slaughterhouse, Washington Beef in Toppen!sh -- the 17th largest in the country, which slaughters 290,000 head per year -- and two facilities in Pasco that belong to Tyson, the largest beef slaughtering company in the United States. In 2002, nearly every test conducted in Washington was on animals from Midway Meats in Centralia, the packing plant where Vern's Moses sent the infected cow carcass. The meat was distributed to several states where some people apparently consumed it, raising concerns about the possibility of contracting the human equivalent of mad cow, an always fatal, brain-wasting condition known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. ... http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040114-041124-1470r By Steve Mitchell http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030701-094458-6348r TSS
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