- Hello, Jeff - Another 'Beyond Belief' story! If they
do not follow up with long term study of those who ate the CWD infected
deer meat at the Firemen's feast they will be able to continue saying that
there is NO EVIDENCE eating CWD infected meat is harmful to human health.
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- I am sure they do NOT want to find cases of vCJD or sporadic
CJD in those who ate the meat. State and Local health officials won't have
to lie, they simpy won't follow up.
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- The deadly and outrageous cover-up continues.
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- Exerpt:
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- Dr. Ermias Belay was the report's principal author but
he said New York and Oneida County officials are following the proper course
by not launching a study.
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- "There's really nothing to monitor presently. No
one's sick," Belay said, noting the disease's incubation period in
deer and elk is measured in years. "This was one carcass, one meal.
It was an animal without symptoms. If it becomes an issue, if other studies
suggest there is a risk, we have a list to go back to."
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- This is such ludicrous nonsense.
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- Of course, people are not sick NOW, it has only been
about one month. We don't know how CWD will effect humans, a study would
enable us to determine incubation time. There have been clusters of sporadic
CJD in hunters who had eaten deer meat. Following up on those who ate
infected deer meat would give us so many answers and eliminate the "fuzziness"
i.e. the relation between CWD and human health.
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- It was only ONE carcass, One meal....and?
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- Patricia
- From VegSource.com
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- Health Officials To Wait And Watch Humans
Who Ate Mad Deer Carcass At New York Banquet
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- By Willian Kates
Associated Press Writer
4-17-5
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- SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- After 350 people at a sportsman's dinner
ate venison from sick deer, a scientist says now is the time to launch
a study to determine if the fatal chronic wasting disease could spread
to humans who ingest infected meat.
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- Chronic wasting disease _ CWD _ was detected earlier
this month in two private captive deer herds in central New York's Oneida
County, the first time it was found outside the Midwest or Rocky Mountains.
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- Scientists say they're still learning about CWD and can't
say for sure if it could be transmitted to humans, but state and local
health officials say they have no plans to study the people who ate the
meat last month.
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- That's a missed opportunity, said an animal disease expert
with the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
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- "Currently, the disease and the speculation surrounding
the disease far out reaches any real science about the disease," said
Tam Garland, a professor of veterinary medicine at Texas A&M University.
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- "New York has the opportunity to do an epidemiological
study ... Seldom are we presented with such an opportunity to study humans,"
Garland said.
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- One of the infected deer from Oneida County was served
at an annual banquet on March 13 at the Verona Fire Department.
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- The Oneida County Health Department made a list of those
who attended the dinner and sent them letters to give them accurate information
about CWD and reassure them it does not pose a health risk to humans, said
Ken Fanelli, a department spokesman.
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- About 70 people called the county health department after
getting the letter, Fanelli said.
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- "No one was particularly concerned or fearful,"
he said. "Most just wanted more information."
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- The venison was served in steak, chili, stew, sausage
and meat patties, health officials said. No organs or bone product from
the deer was served, the parts scientists test when looking for signs of
CWD.
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- State health department spokesman Robert Kenny said although
no medical studies are planned, the list prepared by the county health
department will allow officials to quickly locate and contact the people
if the need arises.
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- In 2004, scientists at the federal Centers for Disease
Control in Atlanta issued a study on chronic wasting disease that stressed
the absence of any evidence linking CWD to humans. Authors, though, acknowledged
the study was limited in geography and sample size and so it couldn't draw
a conclusion about the risk to humans. They recommended more study.
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- Dr. Ermias Belay was the report's principal author but
he said New York and Oneida County officials are following the proper course
by not launching a study.
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- "There's really nothing to monitor presently. No
one's sick," Belay said, noting the disease's incubation period in
deer and elk is measured in years. "This was one carcass, one meal.
It was an animal without symptoms. If it becomes an issue, if other studies
suggest there is a risk, we have a list to go back to."
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- Belay noted that the CDC also is involved in long-term
human medical studies in Colorado and Wyoming, where the disease has been
endemic for more than two decades. He said they don't know definitively
if people there have eaten meat from infected deer.
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- "If people are going to get CWD, these people would
be among the first because of their earlier and longer exposure,"
Belay said.
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- In New York, authorities have so far confirmed five infected
captive deer. The state Department of Environmental Conservation is testing
the wild deer population in Oneida and Hamilton counties to determine if
the disease has spread beyond the two domestic herds. They are killing
about 450 wild deer in central and northern New York to test for the disease.
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- One of the key questions to answer is how the disease
leapfrogged from Illinois _ which had been the easternmost state to detect
CWD _ to New York. DEC spokesman Michael Fraser said it did not appear
to be the result of natural animal migration.
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- "The leading theory is that it was somehow imported.
But how? That's what we need to find out," Fraser said.
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- Although it appears the disease is passed either through
direct animal-to-animal contact or indirect exposure, including feed and
contaminated water sources, scientists admit they don't fully understand
how it's transmitted.
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- http://www.vegsource.com/talk/madcow/messages/94381.html
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- Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
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