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cowdoc, info. you may want to read from Judge D.
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Judge Dread is alive and well. I just received this email from him. I dont know how credible this info. is, not that I'm saying anything bad about Judge Dread, I like the guy, even if he is different.
If this info. should prove correct, its something everyone should know. If its incorrect, or completely bogus, you'll only be out the time it takes to read it. As for me, my wife is a CNA, she's going to read into it, and see what she can find out about it all, since she takes care of elderly patients, it has to do directly with how she may look at some procedures the assisted living home she works at uses.
Its a long read, 6 pages printed on my printer.
Invasive 'Sterilized' Reusable
Medical & Dental Instruments
As Modes Of CJD/BSE Transmission
By Jeff Rense
c. 2000-2004 All Rights Reserved
12-26-03
Note - I am reposting this article for obvious reasons. The data is as important today as it was when I first presented it. This article may be freely reprinted providing nothing is changed and full attribution is intact. - JR
I receive email from a people who are concerned, and well they should be, about the potential risk and infection from the mad cow BSE and CJD prions and variants thereof. In humans, Mad Cow disease is called nvCJD...'new variant'. How prevalent is it? We don't know. Perhaps an indicator is to be found in the autopsies of a group of 67 Alzheimer's patients, 14 of which demonstrated they died of vCJD.
The following email raises several important aspects about which I have talked and written for the last several years.
"I have read the four recent (BSE/mad cow/CJD) news articles on your website, which is my favorite. I have put the information together and have deduced the following: I read your letter from a man in Texas whose Mother died of BSE/CJD from her pills, i.e. Bovine derived vitamins. You also published an article about a study that says medications are passed into our water supply through the body of the sick person and the meds stay in the water supply. That the BSE/CJD prions are indestructible is a given. Today, your site has an article about the water in a city in the UK contaminated with a bio spill containing BSE. I deduce that if the above information is correct, then we are in for a natural bio disaster........There is a story there I think. Do you?"
Yes, indeed.
I first went on record several years ago in being the first to call for the end of ALL reusable 'sterilized' medical and dental instruments and have also made it clear that until proven otherwise, CJD must be considered potentially orally-transmissible via blood.
Not only do these proteins apparently range the spectrum of body tissue and now know to be in blood, but very likely other body fluids as well. It is wise to note that 50% of people have blood in their saliva at all times. Over 90% show blood in saliva after teeth brushing and kissing. In fact, kissing and sharing *unsterilizable* (regarding BSE/CJD) food utensils (restaurants, for certain) are gravely serious and potentially deadly behaviors and possible interfaces with CJD, vCJD, and nvCJD infected persons. Remember, there is an incubation period which can last years before the infected person will demonstrate physical symptoms of CJD. There is NO current test short of a brain necropsy which can determine infection in either human or cattle/deer/elk/sheep and other animals.
Yes, certainly the water supply can potentially contain prions. One only has to recall that the British buried millions of cattle, many infected with these essentially indestructible killer prions, and that these carcasses are now breaking down...and some of their contents will eventually move into various ground water tables and aquifers and/or will run off into streams and rivers.
In the US, more and more accounts of mad deer and mad elk disease are appearing in the media. Deer hunters are being warned not to eat animals they shoot which 'show signs' of mad cow or 'chronic wasting disease' but these warnings fail to inform hunters that deer and elk only show noticeable symptoms in the very final stages of infection. Wildlife professionals and veterinarians are extremely worried and concerned. Hunters should be scared stiff. By the way, the only explanation to date as to how US deer and elk became infected with BSE/mad cow is that they consumed cattle feed spread out in pastures for grazing cattle.
Strange...how deer and elk got mad cow/BSE from that feed but not US cattle seem to be immune from infection. At least that is what the beef and dairy industries would have us believe.
Fact: there are no tests for mad cow/BSE unless the brain of the animal is dissected in a laboratory by trained scientists.
Fact: most US cattle aren't allowed to live long enough to manifest symptoms of mad cow/BSE/CJD ...they are all turned into hamburgers and steaks, gelatin and scores of other human-interactive 'products' too quickly.
Nevertheless, former cattle rancher Howard Lyman (madcowboy.com) and others of integrity, point out that every night over 10,000 cattle go to sleep...not to awaken in the morning. And no one is doing necropsies on them to find out why they died...they are usually just quickly carted off to the rendering plants and converted into everything from pet food to fertilizer for your garden.
No one knows for sure how many 'downer cattle' are slaughtered each year and put into the
food chain. A 'downer' cow is one that has trouble walking or cannot walk. Many of these
obviously could be suffering from BSE...no one knows for sure because the USDA won't test them.
In fact, there are slaughterhouse which ONLY handle downer cattle and restaurants and food market
chains have a choice as to whether or not to purchase meat from downer slaughterhouses. Many do.
Furthermore, the blood from slaughterhouses containing innumerable proteins is commonly sprayed over all sorts of commercial feed products for calves, pigs and especially chicken feed. And then there is cow 'bone meal'...a primary source of added calcium to a countless products from human calcium supplements to flower and vegetable fertilizers. France has banned bone meal from being added to any animal feed.
By the way, 'they' are now putting 'sludge' into many home garden fertilizers as a 'natural' ingredient. 'Sludge' is human sewage. Read the ingredients on that bag of fertilizer before purchasing.
Note that sewage (waste water 'treatment plants') pump their human effluent into rivers, lakes, and into the oceans along both the East and West coasts where routine water sampling along beaches now consistently demonstrate live bacteria and virus. What about the body fluids of CJD victims? In life, they go down the drain and toilet; in death, there body fluids are emptied down the drains of mortuaries when the victim is embalmed. In 1998, some morticians expressed fear and hesitation over embalming people who had died from CJD/BSE. If cremated, how high are the temperatures of crematories? Over 1,000 degrees? Answer: NO.
Dentists and dental hygienists now pose a viable threat to the health of their patients due to the reuse of invasive dental instruments...which are exposed to the blood and saliva of patient after patient. Of course, good dentists and health care professionals autoclave these instruments at around 240 F. to 'sterilize' them...which works well enough for virtually all bacteria and viruses. Unfortunately, the prions which cause mad cow, CJD, sCJD, and nvCJD cannot be killed by anything less that 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Opticians in the UK were ordered over two years ago to stop reusing contact lenses on patients coming in for fittings because of the concern of spreading BSE/CJD. In other words, someone figured out that these proteins could be in tears.
After prions were detected in the tonsils of vCJD victims, the British conducted a lengthy examination of reusable tonsillectomy instruments at a number of UK hospitals. The results: over 50% of these
instruments showed evidence of prion contamination. In other words, sterilization procedures
had failed to destroy and remove prions from the instruments. The British became duly concerned and announced that a program to test removed tonsils themselves for prion infection would
commence as soon as possible. The tests were conducted - but the results were never made public.
Scientists at the University of San Francisco medical school have proven that mad cow BSE and CJD are essentially the exact same creature. To repeat: there was one test (why haven't there been more?) on the brains of a group of over 60 Alzheimer's fatalities which showed that a substantial percent of the victims examined, about 15, had actually died of CJD/mad cow disease.
If mad cow/BSE is in the meat and bones and blood of cow meat, and deer and elk, one must keep in mind that the *potential* exists for it to be in cow's milk as well. Especially in light of the current use of rBGH to drastically increase the milk output of dairy cattle...much of the increase
volume of the milk is WHITE BLOOD cells...pus. (notmilk.com for full data).
It is no big surprise that testing of the milk of cattle known to have mad cow has never been done, or at least released to the public. The results of a single, positive test which discovers a mad cow BSE protein in the milk of a single infected cow would pose an immediate and massive billion dollar crisis for the dairy industry.
Since cows' milk is produced via the proteins, minerals and fluids directly from the blood of the cow, it is logical to assume there is a potential risk in all dairy products. We already know that to be the case with a myriad of items now found in dairy products from artificially-induced hormones to antibiotics to pesticide and herbicide residue. So, how can anyone rule out prions? Answer: you can't. Again, as of this writing, not a single test of the milk of a mad cow/BSE infected animal has been done...or revealed.
The case of the Vermont sheep who were determined to have mad cow, derived from eating cattle feed while in Europe, is a cause for great concern. Although mad cow/BSE hasn't officially been found in dairy products, authorities in Vermont informed the public that is would probably be best NOT TO EAT THE CHEESE made from this infected herd. Now why do you suppose that warning was given?
At this point, in light of the British health authorities' now admitted policy of lying to and deceiving the populace there, it is clear that the same basic patterns of denial and deceit - which allowed the AIDS epidemic to burst out in the world so explosively - are being practiced in these early stages of CJD/BSE epidemic. Words to the wise. Much to think about. -- Jeff Rense
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Some Earlier Warnings --
Jeff Rense Calls Again For Immediate New
National Dental/Medical Sterilization Guidelines
10-29-00
As I have been saying on my program and website for the last couple years now, we are past the age of 'sterilization' in medicine and dentistry as we know it when it comes to the reuse of invasive medical instruments and equipment which now present the risk of spreading fatal CJD/sCJD prions from infected patients to the uninfected. The following headline confirms the issue in full:
8 Patients May Have CJD From Reused 'Sterile' Surgical Instruments
By Suein Hwang and David Hamilton
The Wall Street Journal
10-27-00
I wish to repeat, once again, that dentists are possibly spreading CJD from patient to patient. Most dentists I have spoken to, doctors as well, haven't a clue about CJD prions and how these tiny proteins are indestructible by all standard professional sterilization protocols. They can survive temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit...about 5 times higher than autoclave sterilizers which are now the benchmark technology for sterilizing reusable dental/medical instruments.
Any dentist or hygienist who works on a patient with CJD will bathe most instruments in the blood and saliva of that fatally-infected patient. It is now clear that CJD prions will be found not only in the patient's blood and possibly saliva by itself as well. And those prions can still be on the instrument/s after 'sterilization' ... ready for inoculation into the next patient and possibly multiple patients.
I again, especially, call on professional dentistry and all oral hygienists to immediately cease reusing any invasive instruments on patients. Unfortunately, the will not happen anytime soon,
not until ignorance has been replaced with the hard science of reality.
All patients should be treated ONLY with one-time use instruments and hygienists should begin to encourage patients to purchase their own prophylactic kits containing all the essential angles and teeth cleaning tools. These kits will be purchased by patients and brought into the office by the patient for each cleaning or dental procedure. All dental drills and the drill bits should also be replaced for each patient with new, unused equipment. That, of course, is not going to happen
in the foreseeable future. It is also well worth noting that over 50% of the tonsillectomy
instruments sampled in the UK showed Mad Cow prion contamination. It is no surprise that
story vanished almost overnight.
One more time: dentists and doctors are now no longer able to guarantee they are not possibly spreading CJD prions to uninfected, innocent patients via reusable medical/dental instruments.
Here are a few more news stories describing the risk of reusing invasive surgical instruments. All stories are available in full at rense.com:
1. Louisiana Man Exposed To Mad Cow/CJD During Surgery Sues Hospital
Abstract: Rense.com Louisiana Man Exposed To Mad Cow/CJD During Surgery Sues Hospital http:www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=225603 11-30-00. BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - A Louisiana man who may have been exposed to a rare, fatal brain-wasting disease during su
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2. Canada Hospitals Study CJD Surgical Instrument Risk
Abstract: Rense.com Canada Hospitals Study CJD Surgical Instrument Risk 5-11-1. TORONTO (AFP) - Four hospitals in southwestern Ontario are conducting a risk assessment to see if their surgical instruments may have been exposed to a fatal brain disorder si
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3. UK Medicine Yields To vCJD - All Tonsillectomy Instruments Now Disposable
Abstract: Rense.com UK Medicine Yields To vCJD - All Tonsillectomy Instruments Now Disposable From Patricia Doyle <labgal_5@yahoo.com> From ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org> 1-6-01. The National Heath Service (NHS) is to spend millions of pounds to prevent
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4. nvCJD To Cost Patients Billions To Insure Safer Invasive Instruments
Abstract: Rense.com nvCJD To Cost Patients Billions To Insure Safer Invasive Instruments James Meikle - Health Correspondenthttp:www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,413721,00.html. 12-20-00. The NHS (UK) faces the prospect of paying billions
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5. Possible CJD Risk From Reusable 'Sterile' Eye Surgery Instruments
Abstract: Rense.com Possible CJD Risk From Reusable 'Sterile' Eye Surgery Instruments By Linda Davidson 7-21-1. LONDON (Reuters Health) - Instruments used in eye surgery could spread the human form of "mad cow" disease from patient to patient, research published
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6. 14 Chicago Hospital Patients May Have Been Infected With CJD
Abstract: Rense.com 14 Hospital Patients May Have Been Infected With CJD From King5 News - Seattle http:king5.com/detailtopstory.html?StoryID=22622 7-10-1. CHICAGO (AP) - Fourteen patients at two hospitals may have been exposed to a rare and deadly brain d
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7. Warning Over Routine Surgical CJD Risks
Abstract: Rense.com Mad Cow/CJD Warning Over Routine Surgical Procedures 2-26-99. Australian researchers studying the risk factors linked to sporadic CJD have found that the greatest is surgery for conditions like hysterectomies and heart surgery. They thin
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8. CJD Can Be Transmitted During Surgery
Abstract: Rense.com Mad Cow/CJD Can Be Transmitted Through Surgery By Steve Connor Science Editor The Independent UK 1-15-99. Scientists have found new evidence to suggest that the human version of "mad cow" disease might be transmitted during surgery
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9. 'Mad Cow' Proteins Form In Muscle As Well As Brain
Abstract: Rense.com Mad Cow' Proteins Form In Muscle As Well As Brain By Merritt McKinney 3-19-2. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The abnormal proteins linked to "mad cow" disease and other brain-wasting illnesses can form in muscle much more easily th
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10. Thousands Of UK Hospital Patients Exposed to vCJD
Abstract: Rense.com Thousands Of UK Hospital Patients Exposed to vCJD/Mad Cow By Jonathan Leake Science Editor The Sunday Times - London 9-30-1. Hospitals are having to warn thousands of patients that their operations may have exposed them to
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11. CJD/Mad Cow - UK To Spend $300 Million On Surgical Instrument Risks
Abstract: Rense.com CJD/Mad Cow - UK To Spend $300 Million To Cut Surgical Instrument Risks. http:dailynews.yahoo.com. 1-5-00. LONDON (Reuters) - The British government said on Thursday it will spend $300 million preventing the potential spread of the
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Single-Use Medical Devices Commonly Reused In US
11-10-99
Note - This is a criminally-negligent practice which must be stopped. HIV, Hep-C, CJD and many other potentially fatal viral and bacterial diseases could be spread this way. Even proper sterilization practices are NOT always applied properly. Furthermore, CJD prions, as their bovine sibling, Mad Cow prions, can withstand temperatures in excess of 1,000 degrees F. In other words, no normal sterilization procedure, even if done letter-perfectly, can inactivate CJD prions. And how many prions does it take to become infected? Also, keep in mind the long incubation periods of these diseases. If you have a procedure done with a non-sterile, contaminated and reused needle, catheter, dental tool, or other internal medical device...and you become ill a year or several years later, who would know, or who could prove, that tainted medical device was responsible? As is the case with HIV, Hep-C, and CJD, the symptoms likely wouldn't show up for up to 10 years later. Here is the first graph of the story. -JR
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In hospitals and clinics around the United States, biopsy needles, catheters and other internal medical devices frequently are being reused despite labeling that stipulates "single-use only,'' the New York Times reported Wednesday...
Hepatitis C Linked To Dentists
By Kate Foster
Health Correspondent
The Scotsman.com
7-24-01
Thousands of Hepatitis C sufferers may have contracted the life- threatening virus during dental treatment, health campaigners warned yesterday. (Note - this is Scotland and doesn't take into account the numbers possibly similarly infected in the US, etc. - ed)
It is feared current methods of sterilising dental equipment may not be effective in removing the risk of transmission of the virus, which is 100 times more infectious than HIV.
Jeff Frew, the secretary of Capital C, a support group for hepatitis C sufferers, told The Scotsman that of the 38 per cent of people whose source of infection is unknown, a "substantial number" could have been infected at the dentist.
He said: "Many people with the virus do not fall into the risk categories and do not know how they became infected.
"Dental treatment is the only time when large numbers of the public come into contact with blood. We believe that, although dentists sterilise their tool heads, they are too busy and do not have enough resources to sterilise their tools themselves, and machinery that drives the tools. Hep C is extremely infectious and blood could get into the tool mechanisms and be passed between patients."
Although 10,000 Scots are known to be infected, it is believed a further 25,000 do not know they have the virus, as it can take 20 years for sufferers to fall ill.
Nigel Hughes, the chief executive of the British Liver Trust, warned the risk of infection from dental surgeries "could not be ignored".
He said: "It would be possible to catch hepatitis C in this way if the equipment is not rigorously cleaned and sterilised.
"There's always a distinct possibility, especially if the dental practice session is very busy"
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For a complete list of important Mad Cow/CJD stories visit the
Mad Cow/CJD DataPage at Rense.com.
This article first published in November, 2000
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Judge Dread is alive and well. I just received this email from him. I dont know how credible this info. is, not that I'm saying anything bad about Judge Dread, I like the guy, even if he is different.
If this info. should prove correct, its something everyone should know. If its incorrect, or completely bogus, you'll only be out the time it takes to read it. As for me, my wife is a CNA, she's going to read into it, and see what she can find out about it all, since she takes care of elderly patients, it has to do directly with how she may look at some procedures the assisted living home she works at uses.
Its a long read, 6 pages printed on my printer.
Invasive 'Sterilized' Reusable
Medical & Dental Instruments
As Modes Of CJD/BSE Transmission
By Jeff Rense
c. 2000-2004 All Rights Reserved
12-26-03
Note - I am reposting this article for obvious reasons. The data is as important today as it was when I first presented it. This article may be freely reprinted providing nothing is changed and full attribution is intact. - JR
I receive email from a people who are concerned, and well they should be, about the potential risk and infection from the mad cow BSE and CJD prions and variants thereof. In humans, Mad Cow disease is called nvCJD...'new variant'. How prevalent is it? We don't know. Perhaps an indicator is to be found in the autopsies of a group of 67 Alzheimer's patients, 14 of which demonstrated they died of vCJD.
The following email raises several important aspects about which I have talked and written for the last several years.
"I have read the four recent (BSE/mad cow/CJD) news articles on your website, which is my favorite. I have put the information together and have deduced the following: I read your letter from a man in Texas whose Mother died of BSE/CJD from her pills, i.e. Bovine derived vitamins. You also published an article about a study that says medications are passed into our water supply through the body of the sick person and the meds stay in the water supply. That the BSE/CJD prions are indestructible is a given. Today, your site has an article about the water in a city in the UK contaminated with a bio spill containing BSE. I deduce that if the above information is correct, then we are in for a natural bio disaster........There is a story there I think. Do you?"
Yes, indeed.
I first went on record several years ago in being the first to call for the end of ALL reusable 'sterilized' medical and dental instruments and have also made it clear that until proven otherwise, CJD must be considered potentially orally-transmissible via blood.
Not only do these proteins apparently range the spectrum of body tissue and now know to be in blood, but very likely other body fluids as well. It is wise to note that 50% of people have blood in their saliva at all times. Over 90% show blood in saliva after teeth brushing and kissing. In fact, kissing and sharing *unsterilizable* (regarding BSE/CJD) food utensils (restaurants, for certain) are gravely serious and potentially deadly behaviors and possible interfaces with CJD, vCJD, and nvCJD infected persons. Remember, there is an incubation period which can last years before the infected person will demonstrate physical symptoms of CJD. There is NO current test short of a brain necropsy which can determine infection in either human or cattle/deer/elk/sheep and other animals.
Yes, certainly the water supply can potentially contain prions. One only has to recall that the British buried millions of cattle, many infected with these essentially indestructible killer prions, and that these carcasses are now breaking down...and some of their contents will eventually move into various ground water tables and aquifers and/or will run off into streams and rivers.
In the US, more and more accounts of mad deer and mad elk disease are appearing in the media. Deer hunters are being warned not to eat animals they shoot which 'show signs' of mad cow or 'chronic wasting disease' but these warnings fail to inform hunters that deer and elk only show noticeable symptoms in the very final stages of infection. Wildlife professionals and veterinarians are extremely worried and concerned. Hunters should be scared stiff. By the way, the only explanation to date as to how US deer and elk became infected with BSE/mad cow is that they consumed cattle feed spread out in pastures for grazing cattle.
Strange...how deer and elk got mad cow/BSE from that feed but not US cattle seem to be immune from infection. At least that is what the beef and dairy industries would have us believe.
Fact: there are no tests for mad cow/BSE unless the brain of the animal is dissected in a laboratory by trained scientists.
Fact: most US cattle aren't allowed to live long enough to manifest symptoms of mad cow/BSE/CJD ...they are all turned into hamburgers and steaks, gelatin and scores of other human-interactive 'products' too quickly.
Nevertheless, former cattle rancher Howard Lyman (madcowboy.com) and others of integrity, point out that every night over 10,000 cattle go to sleep...not to awaken in the morning. And no one is doing necropsies on them to find out why they died...they are usually just quickly carted off to the rendering plants and converted into everything from pet food to fertilizer for your garden.
No one knows for sure how many 'downer cattle' are slaughtered each year and put into the
food chain. A 'downer' cow is one that has trouble walking or cannot walk. Many of these
obviously could be suffering from BSE...no one knows for sure because the USDA won't test them.
In fact, there are slaughterhouse which ONLY handle downer cattle and restaurants and food market
chains have a choice as to whether or not to purchase meat from downer slaughterhouses. Many do.
Furthermore, the blood from slaughterhouses containing innumerable proteins is commonly sprayed over all sorts of commercial feed products for calves, pigs and especially chicken feed. And then there is cow 'bone meal'...a primary source of added calcium to a countless products from human calcium supplements to flower and vegetable fertilizers. France has banned bone meal from being added to any animal feed.
By the way, 'they' are now putting 'sludge' into many home garden fertilizers as a 'natural' ingredient. 'Sludge' is human sewage. Read the ingredients on that bag of fertilizer before purchasing.
Note that sewage (waste water 'treatment plants') pump their human effluent into rivers, lakes, and into the oceans along both the East and West coasts where routine water sampling along beaches now consistently demonstrate live bacteria and virus. What about the body fluids of CJD victims? In life, they go down the drain and toilet; in death, there body fluids are emptied down the drains of mortuaries when the victim is embalmed. In 1998, some morticians expressed fear and hesitation over embalming people who had died from CJD/BSE. If cremated, how high are the temperatures of crematories? Over 1,000 degrees? Answer: NO.
Dentists and dental hygienists now pose a viable threat to the health of their patients due to the reuse of invasive dental instruments...which are exposed to the blood and saliva of patient after patient. Of course, good dentists and health care professionals autoclave these instruments at around 240 F. to 'sterilize' them...which works well enough for virtually all bacteria and viruses. Unfortunately, the prions which cause mad cow, CJD, sCJD, and nvCJD cannot be killed by anything less that 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
Opticians in the UK were ordered over two years ago to stop reusing contact lenses on patients coming in for fittings because of the concern of spreading BSE/CJD. In other words, someone figured out that these proteins could be in tears.
After prions were detected in the tonsils of vCJD victims, the British conducted a lengthy examination of reusable tonsillectomy instruments at a number of UK hospitals. The results: over 50% of these
instruments showed evidence of prion contamination. In other words, sterilization procedures
had failed to destroy and remove prions from the instruments. The British became duly concerned and announced that a program to test removed tonsils themselves for prion infection would
commence as soon as possible. The tests were conducted - but the results were never made public.
Scientists at the University of San Francisco medical school have proven that mad cow BSE and CJD are essentially the exact same creature. To repeat: there was one test (why haven't there been more?) on the brains of a group of over 60 Alzheimer's fatalities which showed that a substantial percent of the victims examined, about 15, had actually died of CJD/mad cow disease.
If mad cow/BSE is in the meat and bones and blood of cow meat, and deer and elk, one must keep in mind that the *potential* exists for it to be in cow's milk as well. Especially in light of the current use of rBGH to drastically increase the milk output of dairy cattle...much of the increase
volume of the milk is WHITE BLOOD cells...pus. (notmilk.com for full data).
It is no big surprise that testing of the milk of cattle known to have mad cow has never been done, or at least released to the public. The results of a single, positive test which discovers a mad cow BSE protein in the milk of a single infected cow would pose an immediate and massive billion dollar crisis for the dairy industry.
Since cows' milk is produced via the proteins, minerals and fluids directly from the blood of the cow, it is logical to assume there is a potential risk in all dairy products. We already know that to be the case with a myriad of items now found in dairy products from artificially-induced hormones to antibiotics to pesticide and herbicide residue. So, how can anyone rule out prions? Answer: you can't. Again, as of this writing, not a single test of the milk of a mad cow/BSE infected animal has been done...or revealed.
The case of the Vermont sheep who were determined to have mad cow, derived from eating cattle feed while in Europe, is a cause for great concern. Although mad cow/BSE hasn't officially been found in dairy products, authorities in Vermont informed the public that is would probably be best NOT TO EAT THE CHEESE made from this infected herd. Now why do you suppose that warning was given?
At this point, in light of the British health authorities' now admitted policy of lying to and deceiving the populace there, it is clear that the same basic patterns of denial and deceit - which allowed the AIDS epidemic to burst out in the world so explosively - are being practiced in these early stages of CJD/BSE epidemic. Words to the wise. Much to think about. -- Jeff Rense
_____
Some Earlier Warnings --
Jeff Rense Calls Again For Immediate New
National Dental/Medical Sterilization Guidelines
10-29-00
As I have been saying on my program and website for the last couple years now, we are past the age of 'sterilization' in medicine and dentistry as we know it when it comes to the reuse of invasive medical instruments and equipment which now present the risk of spreading fatal CJD/sCJD prions from infected patients to the uninfected. The following headline confirms the issue in full:
8 Patients May Have CJD From Reused 'Sterile' Surgical Instruments
By Suein Hwang and David Hamilton
The Wall Street Journal
10-27-00
I wish to repeat, once again, that dentists are possibly spreading CJD from patient to patient. Most dentists I have spoken to, doctors as well, haven't a clue about CJD prions and how these tiny proteins are indestructible by all standard professional sterilization protocols. They can survive temperatures of 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit...about 5 times higher than autoclave sterilizers which are now the benchmark technology for sterilizing reusable dental/medical instruments.
Any dentist or hygienist who works on a patient with CJD will bathe most instruments in the blood and saliva of that fatally-infected patient. It is now clear that CJD prions will be found not only in the patient's blood and possibly saliva by itself as well. And those prions can still be on the instrument/s after 'sterilization' ... ready for inoculation into the next patient and possibly multiple patients.
I again, especially, call on professional dentistry and all oral hygienists to immediately cease reusing any invasive instruments on patients. Unfortunately, the will not happen anytime soon,
not until ignorance has been replaced with the hard science of reality.
All patients should be treated ONLY with one-time use instruments and hygienists should begin to encourage patients to purchase their own prophylactic kits containing all the essential angles and teeth cleaning tools. These kits will be purchased by patients and brought into the office by the patient for each cleaning or dental procedure. All dental drills and the drill bits should also be replaced for each patient with new, unused equipment. That, of course, is not going to happen
in the foreseeable future. It is also well worth noting that over 50% of the tonsillectomy
instruments sampled in the UK showed Mad Cow prion contamination. It is no surprise that
story vanished almost overnight.
One more time: dentists and doctors are now no longer able to guarantee they are not possibly spreading CJD prions to uninfected, innocent patients via reusable medical/dental instruments.
Here are a few more news stories describing the risk of reusing invasive surgical instruments. All stories are available in full at rense.com:
1. Louisiana Man Exposed To Mad Cow/CJD During Surgery Sues Hospital
Abstract: Rense.com Louisiana Man Exposed To Mad Cow/CJD During Surgery Sues Hospital http:www.insidechina.com/news.php3?id=225603 11-30-00. BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - A Louisiana man who may have been exposed to a rare, fatal brain-wasting disease during su
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2. Canada Hospitals Study CJD Surgical Instrument Risk
Abstract: Rense.com Canada Hospitals Study CJD Surgical Instrument Risk 5-11-1. TORONTO (AFP) - Four hospitals in southwestern Ontario are conducting a risk assessment to see if their surgical instruments may have been exposed to a fatal brain disorder si
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3. UK Medicine Yields To vCJD - All Tonsillectomy Instruments Now Disposable
Abstract: Rense.com UK Medicine Yields To vCJD - All Tonsillectomy Instruments Now Disposable From Patricia Doyle <labgal_5@yahoo.com> From ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org> 1-6-01. The National Heath Service (NHS) is to spend millions of pounds to prevent
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4. nvCJD To Cost Patients Billions To Insure Safer Invasive Instruments
Abstract: Rense.com nvCJD To Cost Patients Billions To Insure Safer Invasive Instruments James Meikle - Health Correspondenthttp:www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,413721,00.html. 12-20-00. The NHS (UK) faces the prospect of paying billions
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5. Possible CJD Risk From Reusable 'Sterile' Eye Surgery Instruments
Abstract: Rense.com Possible CJD Risk From Reusable 'Sterile' Eye Surgery Instruments By Linda Davidson 7-21-1. LONDON (Reuters Health) - Instruments used in eye surgery could spread the human form of "mad cow" disease from patient to patient, research published
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6. 14 Chicago Hospital Patients May Have Been Infected With CJD
Abstract: Rense.com 14 Hospital Patients May Have Been Infected With CJD From King5 News - Seattle http:king5.com/detailtopstory.html?StoryID=22622 7-10-1. CHICAGO (AP) - Fourteen patients at two hospitals may have been exposed to a rare and deadly brain d
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7. Warning Over Routine Surgical CJD Risks
Abstract: Rense.com Mad Cow/CJD Warning Over Routine Surgical Procedures 2-26-99. Australian researchers studying the risk factors linked to sporadic CJD have found that the greatest is surgery for conditions like hysterectomies and heart surgery. They thin
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8. CJD Can Be Transmitted During Surgery
Abstract: Rense.com Mad Cow/CJD Can Be Transmitted Through Surgery By Steve Connor Science Editor The Independent UK 1-15-99. Scientists have found new evidence to suggest that the human version of "mad cow" disease might be transmitted during surgery
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9. 'Mad Cow' Proteins Form In Muscle As Well As Brain
Abstract: Rense.com Mad Cow' Proteins Form In Muscle As Well As Brain By Merritt McKinney 3-19-2. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The abnormal proteins linked to "mad cow" disease and other brain-wasting illnesses can form in muscle much more easily th
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10. Thousands Of UK Hospital Patients Exposed to vCJD
Abstract: Rense.com Thousands Of UK Hospital Patients Exposed to vCJD/Mad Cow By Jonathan Leake Science Editor The Sunday Times - London 9-30-1. Hospitals are having to warn thousands of patients that their operations may have exposed them to
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11. CJD/Mad Cow - UK To Spend $300 Million On Surgical Instrument Risks
Abstract: Rense.com CJD/Mad Cow - UK To Spend $300 Million To Cut Surgical Instrument Risks. http:dailynews.yahoo.com. 1-5-00. LONDON (Reuters) - The British government said on Thursday it will spend $300 million preventing the potential spread of the
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Single-Use Medical Devices Commonly Reused In US
11-10-99
Note - This is a criminally-negligent practice which must be stopped. HIV, Hep-C, CJD and many other potentially fatal viral and bacterial diseases could be spread this way. Even proper sterilization practices are NOT always applied properly. Furthermore, CJD prions, as their bovine sibling, Mad Cow prions, can withstand temperatures in excess of 1,000 degrees F. In other words, no normal sterilization procedure, even if done letter-perfectly, can inactivate CJD prions. And how many prions does it take to become infected? Also, keep in mind the long incubation periods of these diseases. If you have a procedure done with a non-sterile, contaminated and reused needle, catheter, dental tool, or other internal medical device...and you become ill a year or several years later, who would know, or who could prove, that tainted medical device was responsible? As is the case with HIV, Hep-C, and CJD, the symptoms likely wouldn't show up for up to 10 years later. Here is the first graph of the story. -JR
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In hospitals and clinics around the United States, biopsy needles, catheters and other internal medical devices frequently are being reused despite labeling that stipulates "single-use only,'' the New York Times reported Wednesday...
Hepatitis C Linked To Dentists
By Kate Foster
Health Correspondent
The Scotsman.com
7-24-01
Thousands of Hepatitis C sufferers may have contracted the life- threatening virus during dental treatment, health campaigners warned yesterday. (Note - this is Scotland and doesn't take into account the numbers possibly similarly infected in the US, etc. - ed)
It is feared current methods of sterilising dental equipment may not be effective in removing the risk of transmission of the virus, which is 100 times more infectious than HIV.
Jeff Frew, the secretary of Capital C, a support group for hepatitis C sufferers, told The Scotsman that of the 38 per cent of people whose source of infection is unknown, a "substantial number" could have been infected at the dentist.
He said: "Many people with the virus do not fall into the risk categories and do not know how they became infected.
"Dental treatment is the only time when large numbers of the public come into contact with blood. We believe that, although dentists sterilise their tool heads, they are too busy and do not have enough resources to sterilise their tools themselves, and machinery that drives the tools. Hep C is extremely infectious and blood could get into the tool mechanisms and be passed between patients."
Although 10,000 Scots are known to be infected, it is believed a further 25,000 do not know they have the virus, as it can take 20 years for sufferers to fall ill.
Nigel Hughes, the chief executive of the British Liver Trust, warned the risk of infection from dental surgeries "could not be ignored".
He said: "It would be possible to catch hepatitis C in this way if the equipment is not rigorously cleaned and sterilised.
"There's always a distinct possibility, especially if the dental practice session is very busy"
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This article first published in November, 2000
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When guns were invented everything changed. For the first time in the history of the world a frail woman had a chance to sucessfully defend herself and home. My dream is that one of the anti-gun nuts will need a gun for defense and be unable to have one because of their own actions.
Awwww....thats just wrong. JD sent this to me, and asked me to post it after I already had when I told him I was glad to hear from him. He genuinely cares about all the good folks here, and his heart is in the right place. Besides, he could be onto some good info. for a change, sounds very plausible if you have been follwing the medical journals, and the discovery channel as of late.
Oh well, GHD, I know if you have the time to tell JD to get gone, you really do care.[:D]
"Never argue with an idiot.... They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience."
"I don't have an attitude problem, you have a perception problem."
Ryan
Generally the patients most effected by it are the ones on medicare.
The government would rather pay for reuse equipment rather than for the new. The composite cost is about $2800.00 per month.
The chance of disease transmittal from any reuse med equipment is always of great concern!