Prions removed from animal blood

news@nature.com ^ | 22 December 2006 | Michael Hopkin

[neverdem]

Reduction in infectivity of endogenous transmissible spongiform encephalopathies present in blood by adsorption to selective affinity resins

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[neverdem]

spongiform encephalopathy ping

[martin_fierro]

Because-When-I-Think-Prions-I-Think-SunkenCiv PING

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Martin. All this time I thought prions were extra junk that managed to pry itself into atomic nuclei. Silly me. ;')

Coleus, possibly of interest.

Have a very Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and fun and productive 2007!

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[Coleus]

Thank you, a Blessed Christmas to you all..

Hopefully, they will be able to do this on a grand scale and allow people who have been to Europe to donate blood.

[neverdem]

ping

[Quix]

Very important, imho.

[neverdem]

Our humble opinions have been relegated to chat. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

[Quix]

Why on earth?

Very curious.

Prions are a very real, super redundantly verified hazard loose in the biosphere. The wasting brain disease is no laughing matter.

Why relegate it to chat??? I don't understand.

Thanks.

[neverdem]

Why on earth?

Ask the admin mods. I posted to News/Activism. If I knew it was going to be downgraded to chat, I probably wouldn't have bothered to post it or getting a link to the abstract.

[Quix]

Your FREEPMAIL includes or should--a copy of mine to the ADMIN MOD. Thx.

[neverdem]

I figured it must have been a courtesy copy.

[Quix]

Sure.

You are worth plenty courtesy, aren't you!

I think so.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the compliment. So are you worth plenty of courtesy. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

[Quix]

Thanks for your kind words and for your frequent service to FREEPERS hereon.

[Lurker]

Very interesting.

If I read the article correctly, there's still no way to test for these critters in the blood. Do I have that right?

And do they really know what the level of prions in the bloodstream are required to produce illness or are they just guessing?

It's great they've found a way to filter them out, well most of them anyway.

Thanks for the info and Merry Christmas to the both of you.

Regards,

L

[Quix]

I don't know much beyond the article in terms of testing and blood.

I just know that any amount seems to be hazardous and no amount of cooking, baking, microwaving etc. destroys them.

As far as I know, there's no way of destroying the buggers in meat or anything else.

And, they are in rat urine left on leaves, twigs, rocks, ?water?, in the forest etc.

[Lurker]

Rohwer points out, however, that even blood from heavily infected people contains only 5,000 infective doses' worth of prions, so filtering of donated blood should bring the amount well below the amount required to cause disease.

The above is the part that raised questions in my mind. I didn't know they'd established a 'safe limit' for these things.

And, they are in rat urine left on leaves, twigs, rocks, ?water?, in the forest etc.

One more reason to hate rats...

L

[Quix]

I'm very skeptical that they know with any serious reliability about the amount needed to cause an infection.

1. The incubation period seems to be quite long in many if not most or all cases.

2. I don't think their research--at least the known research into them is that sophisticated, extensive, trustworthy.

3. Frankly, I don't trust the globalist government folks in charge of such things on this score 0.000000000000000000001%.