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- SANDPOINT, ID
- Though ìmad
cowî disease may have spread to English
cattle that ate sheep brains,
the infectious crystalline agent
associated with the disorder, called a
prion, did not likely originate
there. A new theory on such transmissible
spongiform encephalopathies
(TSEs) provides a sobering likelihood that
the sheep likely became
initially contaminated by eating fungal infected
grains.
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- Indeed, a growing
body of scientific evidence shows that
yeast, or fungi, may carry the
resilient, infectious prion responsible
for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
(CJD) in humans, scrapie in sheep, ìmad
cow diseaseî in
cows, and several other transmissible brain disorders
affecting other
species of wild animals.
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- This new prion theory, according to Harvard graduate
and internationally known public health authority Dr. Leonard G. Horowitz
and his colleague, principle investigator Dr. Joseph E. Barber, forecasts
that these deadly TSEs foreshadow a ìbiological apocalypseî
that will make "AIDS seem like an appetizer at a cataclysmic
picnic."
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- According to their new 511-page text, Healing Codes for
the
Biological Apocalypse (Tetrahedron Press. 1999), Dr. Barber, a
naturopathic
physician, was intuitively guided to research prions while
treating patients
suffering from fungal infections.
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- Accessing the
scientific literature, he happened upon
a report in Cell by researchers
at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
at the University of Chicago.
They reported that a prion-like protein found
in yeast, a fungus, was
able to transmit ìapoptosis,î (programmed
cell death)
through crystal growth, without depending on DNA or RNA.
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- This, they reported,
occurred "much like" what
was observed in the brains of
ìmad cowî diseased cattle and
humans with CJD. Though the
article reassured consumers not to worry about
prions in bread and
beer, Dr. Susan Lindquist, one of the institute's team
leaders, said
that these particles relayed genetic inheritance through
a mechanism
associated with several devastating neurodegenerative diseases
including Alzheimer's.
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- Upon further research by Dr. Horowitz, the authors
concluded
that consumers of yeast, or fungal infected grains, may not
be free of
prion risks. Prions, the authors wrote, "are able to
pass toxicity
and inheritable messages from one generation of fungus to
the next."
And since these crystalline structures effectively
resist chemical control,
and even extreme heat, they can be passed
through even processed foods
as was the case in the British outbreak of
CJD in beefeaters. These diseases,
"mad cow," scrapie, and
CJD are equally then, if not more likely,
transmitted by the prion
crystal pathogens identified in contaminated fungi
and their primary
host -- grains.
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- Lending support for this theory, a widely publicized
case of
CJD in Britain occurred in a young woman, Claire Tomkins, who was
a
long time steadfast vegetarian.
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- Compounding their evidence is a complaint filed with
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by the Consumers Union (CU). The
1997 petition alerted officials regarding the likelihood that prion
diseases
were being transmitted by unregulated swine wastes and pork
products. The
CU reported that at least two epidemiologic studies in
the scientific literature
had addressed the issue of dietary risk
factors for CJD.
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- Both found links to pork. Other species at risk for prion
infections, according to the CU, included chickens and mink as well as
other animals that may eat swine waste contaminants that commonly spill
into rivers and streams or spread through fertilizers to open fields thus
infecting grains and grazing animals.
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- According to U.S. Government
health officials, CJD is
virtually nonexistent in North America though
wild animals are increasingly
developing TSEs. According to University
of Pittsburgh researchers, however,
5.5 percent of Alzheimer's patients
may have been misdiagnosed. A similar
CJD study at Yale found more than
twice that amount. Even at that small
percentage rate, the authors
concluded, with more than 2,000,000 Alzheimer's
cases in the United
States today, there is likely a ìhidden CJD
epidemicî of
approximately 200,000 cases.
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- "Unless health officials from around the world heed
this warning, scrutinize these facts, and take preventive
precautions,"
Dr. Horowitz concluded, ìpopulations may fall
victim to a biological
apocalypse unprecedented in earth's history.
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- Healing Codes for the Biological Apocalypse can be special
ordered direct from the publisher by calling: 1- 888-508-4787. Dr.
Horowitz
is also the author of the definitive work on the origin of
AIDS and other
'designer' diseases, Emerging Viruses: AIDS and Ebola --
Nature Accident
or Intentional? which can also be ordered direct from
the publisher by
calling the number provided above.
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