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Bump.

See also ... Schumer calls for FDA to remove Europe blood ban

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Of course. The filters miss prions.

Did you catch the scare caught in the stock market this morning when fast food companies were sank fast as a result of the following article on reuters:

Canada Reports First Case of New Variant CJD
Thu Aug 8,10:56 AM ET

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A Canadian man has died of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ( news - web sites) (vCJD), the human strain of mad cow disease, Health Canada officials said on Thursday.

The victim, who died in a hospital at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, likely contracted the disease in Britain, said Andrew Swift, a spokesman for the federal health department.

"Health Canada has received confirmation of the first case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease recorded in Canada," Swift said. "However all evidence points to the patient having acquired the disease in the United Kingdom. There is no evidence to suggest that Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ( news - web sites), commonly known as BSE ( news - web sites), has entered the Canadian food supply."

New variant CJD is a fatal disease. Scientists believe it is contracted by eating beef infected with mad cow disease. There have been about 115 cases of new variant CJD in Europe.

 

Just at the same time as the following is reported:

Military joins fight against disease: Money offered to study prions, cause of mad cow, chronic wasting diseases
Thu Aug 8, 6:36 AM ET

JOHN FAUBER and MARK JOHNSON

At the direction of Congress, the U.S. military will dole out $42.5 million to learn more about prions, the deadly infectious agents suspected of causing chronic wasting disease and "mad cow" disease.

The funding represents a dramatic increase in the federal money spent on research into prion diseases, including the human disorder, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ( news - web sites).

Through the National Institutes of Health ( news - web sites), the federal government now spends roughly $20 million a year on the research.

One of the primary goals of the new funding is to quickly develop a test that can diagnose prion disease, both in animals and people, said Chuck Dasey, a spokesman for the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command at Fort Detrick, Md., on Wednesday.

Full story at Milwaukee Journal

Which raises a big question about how any bio attack using vCJD would be traceable? (And is the military able to get up to speed fast enough?)