Tennessee Man Diagnosed with Human Form of ‘Mad Cow’ Disease

[roadmaster]

A Tennessee man has been diagnosed with Cruetzfeldt-Jackob Disease. Also known as CJD. It is the human equivalent to Mad Cow Disease. Tony Gibson, 32, was a healthy father until his symptoms began to show one year ago.
His family said that he started acting strangely and that he became very forgetful. “I had to start labeling the rooms in our home. He would get lost going to the grocery store, and someone would call me and say we have your husband,” his wife said. Gibson was eventually diagnosed with CJD.
Patients with the condition can become anxious, depressed, confused, and the disease progresses quickly. There is no treatment and the patients eventually go into a semi-comatose state. CJD can develop randomly, genetically, or after being exposed to infected human tissue during a medical procedure. It is unknown how Gibson got the disease.

https://alboenews.net/2018/12/21/ten...d-cow-disease/

[Dr. Who]

A Tennessee man has been diagnosed with Cruetzfeldt-Jackob Disease. Also known as CJD. It is the human equivalent to Mad Cow Disease. Tony Gibson, 32, was a healthy father until his symptoms began to show one year ago.
His family said that he started acting strangely and that he became very forgetful. “I had to start labeling the rooms in our home. He would get lost going to the grocery store, and someone would call me and say we have your husband,” his wife said. Gibson was eventually diagnosed with CJD.
Patients with the condition can become anxious, depressed, confused, and the disease progresses quickly. There is no treatment and the patients eventually go into a semi-comatose state. CJD can develop randomly, genetically, or after being exposed to infected human tissue during a medical procedure. It is unknown how Gibson got the disease.

https://alboenews.net/2018/12/21/ten...d-cow-disease/

One way to contract it is by eating beef that is raw or scarcely cooked. Just an FYI for those who like their steak very rare.

[ODB]

One way to contract it is by eating beef that is raw or scarcely cooked. Just an FYI for those who like their steak very rare.

Damn it.

[Dr. Who]

Damn it.

Actually, if you are not eating cow brains you are at very little risk. The prions that cause the disease are not terribly diminished by high heat and only occur in brains, spinal and other central nervous system tissue. There is a possibility that remnants of that tissue can contaminate muscle tissue in the process of butchering. IOW if you don't eat head cheese, you are probably OK. Furthermore, Mad Cow infected cattle are generally destroyed very quickly and the chances of any part of them ending up in a major commercial grocery store is very small. You may be at greater risk if you eat rare hamburger meat. The temperature required to eliminate it in a steak would make it inedible. I wouldn't worry about it. Your chances of being struck by lightning or run over by a bus are far greater.

[Peter1469]

One way to contract it is by eating beef that is raw or scarcely cooked. Just an FYI for those who like their steak very rare.

That is low on the list of how to get it. Sporadic CJD accounts for the majority of cases. Next is genetics. Then being given mistakenly contaminated stem cells. Then food.

[nathanbforrest45]

One way to contract it is by eating beef that is raw or scarcely cooked. Just an FYI for those who like their steak very rare.

Well, I don't need to worry. I even eat my Steak Tartare well done.

[Dr. Who]

Well, I don't need to worry. I even eat my Steak Tartare well done.

I think that's called a hamburger.