In article <01I2UFEX34PUASCBEE at WVNVMS.WVNET.EDU>,
DBYELT at WVNVAXA.WVNET.EDU wrote:
>While the discussion seems to be centerd on the possibility of humans
contracting CJD by eating flesh from infected cattle, I would ask - why
haven't humans contracted CJD by eating flesh from infected sheep? Any
thoughts?
Well... Professor Lacey argues that scrapie has never been transmitted to
humans because we eat young lamb which has not yet accumulated large
quntities of the infectious agent. If true, the risk from cattle would
be mainly from mechanically recovered meat not only because of the
likelyhood of CNS tissue being included but because the meat often comes
from old milk cattle.
Matt,
University of Leeds,
Dept. of Microbiology
