Creutzfeldt-Jakob (Mad Cow) Disease and Prions

[froggy57]

His insensitive remarks about welfare recipients and his lame attempts at humor turned me off.

[brofjw]

So maybe the all those spooky cattle mutilations that happen around the world aren't really UFOs but is actually the government testing for Mad Cow or CJD. Since they don't know what to do about the disease itself, maybe they would be prepared to secretly decimate an entire herd of cattle to quell such an outbreak. Maybe they have it in control, but if we knew what they were actually doing to control it we wouldn't like it...hence the secrecy of the program.

[hgg4]

Thanks santa!

[refija1]

MY SON DID NOT EAT BEEF AND WAS DIAGNOSED WITH VCJD LAST YEAR (APRIL 2010). THIS MAN CAN BE RIGHT I000% ABOUT EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT. GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO COVER IT UP... I KNOW BECAUSE I CARE FOR MY SON WHO IS STIL ALIVE, BUT 24 HOURS IN THE BED!!! 24 YRS OLD FUTURE PILOT, AND FORMER AVIATION STUDENT!!!

[Bumblybee256]

@refija1 Could have been beef products.

[hawkeyeis]

You're the only idiot here. Perhaps you have to come close to death before you seek help from something other than traditional med which almost kills you.

[kasiopeq]

his jokes are so funny I forgot to laugh....

[kasiopeq]

his jokes are so funny I forgot to laugh....

[98682bobbyd]

Having just been introduced into the world of proteinaceous infectious particles, they seem to behave like cancer. Where prions are just self-replicating "junk" proteins, cancer is mutated cells that have their regulatory system broken.

What are some other differences?

[Bumblybee256]

@98682bobbyd well.........you can destroy cancer cells. prions are resistant to UV radiation treatment, formalin and heating up to 600 degrees C. They're also infectious.

[returnoftheramble3]

Freeloaders or trapped drags. Share opportunity. As far as prions go, if they can bend them one way then can't they create a virus by bending them into another dominant shape that's not as damaging? I'm not joking; they make them in the lab by shaking them. I won't eat red meat.

[zimfam10]

eddysacat....im guessing you know absolutely nothing about mad cow disease judging by your comment, which makes you completely unqualified too suggest others should not listen. Your a prime example of an ignorant person.

[kintakintyea]

Soilent green!

[eddysacat]

This guy is an idiot. I'll bet if you were to look in his head you'd find a massive pile of cow shit! I hope no one is taking his claims of curing prion diseases seriously. The government should arrest this guy and grind him up into cattle feed. Or better yet! Feed him to the people on welfare.

[icedup4u]

@eddysacat Actually, the government refused to allow cattle ranchers to even test for it. He has done his time in school, and obviously knows that he is attempting to help people. Sounds like you just don't care. Remember, the best way to determine how successful is how a country treats those on welfare, that and how intelligent its community is.

[bulltexan1]

Makes ya think twice about air quality...

[14thSonofBrahman]

EPIC BEARD

[FANTASTICKISS]

great video, thank!

[Transubstantiation2]

well done, thank you

[Andyjkd]

sorry i meant why dont the countries next to great britain have more cases of cjd.

[Andyjkd]

i have never in all my research done since my dad died of cjd heard such a pile of shit. If prions fell out of the sky why do the countries next to great britain have more cases of variant cjd which is 100% linked to bse? My thoughts go out to everyone who has lost anyone to cjd and to anyone who has had to listen to a complete idiot who knows nothing about the disease suggest he can cure someone with this awful disease.

[ambera15]

Yeah , I think it´s rather unlikely prions would attack onorganic material. Even if they were actually somehow magically able to resist the enormous heat and be carried away by the smoke. After all , they are just proteins .

[PrioV86]

This man is a joke my friend. I cannot believe people actually listen to him. What a complete joke and insult!

[sidneyo]

My husband died of this. While the speaker is correct about prions, I doubt that he has seen 50 people with CJD. I really do question it unless he has an absolutely definitive diagnostic tool that is not widely in use. So, how were these 50 cases diagnosed?

[tkdterp8]

Sidneyo, my sympathy to the loss of your husband. My brother died from CJD too. The only way to find prions (my limited layman's understanding here) is to do a spinal tap or a brain biopsy. I am still reeling over that man and his incorrect information.

[PrioV86]

That man is a joke! I am flabberghasted that he is allowed to post such nonsense.

[tkdterp8]

Hudson, that is correct. And out of that 600,000, how many are bone and tissue donors when they die? My brother recieved a cadaver bone to fuse his vertebrae in his neck and was a victim of CJD almost three years to the day later.

[tkdterp8]

I've never heard of prions falling from the sky as a result of cattle being burned. Where is the documentation to back up this statement Precision Herbs? Also, you state, "I myself have seen over 50 people with CJD...and got most of them well." Again, I have NEVER heard of anyone who has been diagnosed with CJD becoming "well." My brother Zane died at age 32 from CJD. It sickens me to think that you are out telling lies about a disease you know nothing about!

[HudsonRand]

There are over 600,000 misdiagnosed cased of BSE related disease in humans. This estimate is for North America and South America combined. The common misdiagnosis is for CJD and Alzheimer's Disease.

US beef products are still banned in certain countries. South Korea rioted at the proposal to lift the ban on US beef. There soon will be an epidemic of BSE related disease in the world. Mad Cowboy!

[jasonsrundle]

There has never been an instance of people contracting a CWD-related disease from butchering or eating venison, studies by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have failed to find any relationship. Additionally, routine surveillance has not shown any increase in the incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Colorado or Wyoming. There has never been an instance of people contracting a CWD-related disease from butchering or eating venison.

[SaganAppreciationSoc]

Watch Oneida County, NY and get back to use in a decade. This is going to be a wonderful front-row seat into seeing what happens when people eat infected CWD deer.

[jasonsrundle]

Despite vitriolic accusations by some anti-hunters, there is no substantial psychological research or writing that concludes that ethical hunting is in any way associated with mental disease. Many of the best respected behavioral scientists of our times, including Sigmund Freud, William James, Carl Jung, Erich Fromm, Marie-Louise von Franz, and Karl Menninger, agree that hunting is a natural, healthy part of human nature.

[arripay]

Hey where did my comment go? As someone with a PhD in human prion research I'd like to point out that most of this is utterly incorrect. Sadly, no-one has been cured of prion disease and this video shows a total lack of understanding of CJD, BSE and CWD (CWD is caused by prions but is otherwise unrelated). There are also plenty of real doctors and scientists working on potential treatments, so please don't imply that we have thrown our hands up and given up or are hiding anything.

[ram22ize]

@arripay yeah his research is depicted to give hope to the public without everyone freaking out although i do agree that his summery seemed a bit elementary, which makes since after viewing his crowd!

[talesfromthetrip]

so is this where chronic wasting disease in the deer came from?

[McWheeler93030]

yes prions do play a role in CWD

[mastershawa]

This is very interesting!