Besides being a microbiologist, I am also an environmental scientist. I
currently subscribe to sci.environment and there was a post there that
was of some interest to me, the microbiologist on BSE. A person wrote that
BSE may not in fact be caused by prions, but rather from organo-phosphate
pesticides that the British seem to literally dump over their cattle to
ward off some fly.
The post went on to say that once a cow has been diagnosed with Mad Cow
Disease it becomes the property of the government so there is in fact
very little known about what the cows *actually* die from, since
researchers have very little access to the cows for study.
What we may in fact be seeing is not a disease due to prions, as much as
it may be one caused by pesticide accumulation within both within
the cow that shows the neuro-degenerative problems that we see, as well
as the people who die of alike symptoms. What we in fact may be
witnessing is a disease caused by a bio-accumulated pesticide in the food
chain.
Until the British open up access of the cows to researchers, it will
never be conclusively proven whether the problem is due in fact to a prion,
or a Silent Spring.
Robert H. Ruskin, M.Sc.
Environmental Microbiologist
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