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* Swiss Scientist Expects

Prions In Milk Of

Infected Animals

*Jeff Rense

11-5-5 *Note* - As Dr. Doyle and I have been saying for getting on toward

ten years now, there is no reason to assume prions are NOT in the milk of

infected dairy cattle or any other TSE-stricken animals. As is now clearly

documented, during the early years of the mad cow catastrophe in the UK, the

British government continued to lie and deceive its people in claiming that

prions were somehow (magically) restricted to the brains of infected cows. That

lie was then morphed into claims and guarantees that prions could only be

found in the brains AND spinal columns of mad cows. I argued that the

authorities were clearly lying ...that proteins would never so restrict

themselves and could be - and would be - found throughout an infected

animal's body ...carried via the blood circulatory system. That, of course,

has now proven to be true. British health officials kept changing their

deadly deception until they were subsequently forced to modify their story,

and slowly admitted that prions could be found in the bones (but not the

meat of infected cattel). Then came an admission that prions had been found

in the tongues of infected animals. Next it was the tonsils...and then

finally - after several years - came the official admission that prions are,

indeed, present in the meat/muscle of mad cows. We further noted how the

spines of slaughtered cattle are literally cut in half from end-to-end by

high speed slaughterhouse power saws... which obviously sprays blood and any

prions in the spinal column all over the dead animal's remains. Next came

the crucial 'human' survey done in a number of UK hospitals which showed

over half of the tested tonsillectomy instruments - studied *after* they had

been fully autoclaved (sterilized) - were contaminated with prions. This was

a critical development in BSE/mad cow knowledge evolution which I reported

on the program and site at great length. As some may recall, there then

followed an announcement that testing for prions was going to begin on human

tonsils which had been removed in the same UK hospitals. However, as we came

to see, the results of those tests were never released to the public... All

during these years, Dr. Doyle and I warned, again and again, that mik and

dairy products MUST also be considered as vectors of prion protein

infection. I have no doubt tests on the milk of mad dairy cows were, in

fact, conducted in the background and the results of those tests were kept

secret. Consider how milk from hundreds, if not thousands, of cattle - any

number of which might be infected - is all mixed together at the dairy farm

and then transported in tanker trucks for processing into the entire range

of dairy products for the marketplace. In addition to calling for milk and

dairy product testing, I also, in 1997, began to warn that re-usable,

invasive medical and dental instruments could no longer be called completely

sterilize after autoclaving because prions (as found on the tonsillectomy

instruments) are not affected by the approximately 250 F autoclave

temperatures. Prions can tolerate heat of 1,000 F. Here is the story of the

Swiss research... From Patricia Doyle, PhD

dr_p_doyle

11-5-5 Hello, Jeff - Normally, such articles as the following are prefaced -

or contain - a statement assuring us there is " no risk to human health. "

This one does not have that pacifiying caveat and contains enormous and

undeniable implications of risk to the health of consumers. The key quote in

the article - " It is unlikely that the prions are not in the milk, " says

Aguzzi, a pathologist at the University of Zurich Hospital, Switzerland.

" And the prospect is not a pleasant one. " ... " This raises very serious

questions. " Indeed it does. Patricia Doyle *Prions Suspected In Milk

Sheep Mammaries Shown To

Contain Agents Of Fatal Brain Disease.*

By Andreas von Bubnoff

Published In Nature Online

3 November 2005

doi:10.1038/news051031-7 The inflamed mammary glands of sheep have been

found to contain protein particles that cause scrapie, a sickness similar to

mad cow disease. This suggests that the suspect proteins, called prions, may

also be present in the milk of infected animals. If prions exist in the milk

of cows infected with both an inflammatory illness and mad cow disease,

formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), this raises

concerns for human health. Consumption of prion-contaminated meat from cows

with BSE is believed to cause the fatal variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

(vCJD) in people; so might contaminated milk. Adriano Aguzzi, the lead

researcher on the study, has not detected prions in milk itself, because it

is difficult to analyse for the abnormal proteins. But he says he expects to

find them. " It is unlikely that the prions are not in the milk, " says

Aguzzi, a pathologist at the University of Zurich Hospital, Switzerland.

" And the prospect is not a pleasant one. " Neil Cashman, a prion researcher

at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, is worried too. People

have looked for prions in the milk of cows with BSE and haven't found any,

he says. " But they haven't looked in cows with mammary-gland infection and

BSE. " " This raises very serious questions, " concludes Cashman. Inflamed In

The Brain Prions are mainly found in the brain, spinal cord and immune

system. Until recently, other body parts were thought to be relatively safe.

But in a series of studies, Aguzzi's group has shown that prions can be

present in other organs as well, provided that these organs are

inflamed. Earlier

this year, his group found prions in inflamed pancreases, livers and

kidneys. A study last month showed that the urine produced by inflamed

kidneys in mice also contains prions. All this has helped to solve the

mystery of how wild herds of elk and deer, which are vegetarian, might

manage to contract prion diseases from each other. And it prompted Aguzzi to

look at mammary glands to see if they could carry prions too. Viral

Culprit? The

researchers went to Sardinia, a Mediterranean island with more than a

million sheep, and analysed 261 sheep that were genetically susceptible to

scrapie. Of those, seven had scrapie, and four also had an infection of

their mammary glands. All these four had prions in their mammary glands; the

others did not. The study appears this week in Nature Medicine1. The

mammary-gland infections were caused by a virus called Maedi Visna. Aguzzi

says that if this prion-virus combination is common, it may be a clue to how

to fight the transmission of scrapie. " Maybe to eradicate scrapie you have

to eradicate the virus first, " Aguzzi says. The prion concentration in the

sheep's mammary glands is thousands of times lower than in the brain, says

Aguzzi. This is probably good news, although it is not known how many prions

it takes to cause vCJD in humans. (Note - Many scientists suspect that a

single prion protein is all that is necessary to established the deadly

infection...be it in cattle, sheep, deer and elk (called CWD), and humans

(called vCJD). - JR)

http://www.nature.com/news/2005/051031/full/051031-7.html Patricia A.

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