I'm in a somewhat medical field, get emails about new articles/research weekly. This popped up in my email last week. Its not a causative link, but does raise my concern level some.
Agreed. This study is not proof of anything, but with the proximity of the two cases and the statistics of CJD, there could be something to it.I have a quite a bit of familiarity with CJD because of my field.
Simplified, a prion is just a misfolded protein that causes other proteins around it to misfold too. It causes a cascade effect that is irreversible with current medical tech.
From a pathological standpoint, CWD and CJD/Mad Cow Disease are the same disease, but when it occurs in humans it is called CJD. It has also historically been really difficult to test for in living patients.
The concern here is that CJD is pretty rare (350 cases in the US per year), so seeing 2 cases occur close together COULD indicate a common factor.
Definitely something to look into very carefully!
You are 100% correct, and I appreciate that the article didn't try to draw conclusions. It did exactly what it was supposed to do which is just to report the cases. Somewhere between 5-15% of CJD cases are thought to be inherited.Many questions here; how long were they and the herd exposed to CWD, how did they process their deer, did they only eat the muscle (deboned) or did they do bone-in processing. Any organs eaten, any other possible shared exposure like sheep, beef?
Yes it would. And you are correct about very low transmission rate of MCD. Best estimates are, 38 million people in Europe ate MCD infected meat. But only 206 got CJDv. But still a risk and a disaster for those who became infected.This would be incredibly bad news for deer hunters if it's proven to be related. Only a small percentage of people who consumed mad cows developed CJD but it was enough to create a problem.
Let's just hope and pray these two were unlucky coincidences.
I recall an article that said there may have been a proclivity in those that were affected. Which may account for the low number of those that actually contracted CJDv.Yes it would. And you are correct about very low transmission rate of MCD. Best estimates are, 38 million people in Europe ate MCD infected meat. But only 206 got CJDv. But still a risk and a disaster for those who became infected.
Was just an observational case report, not a study.Who funded the study?
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.CDC: Deer meat didn't cause hunters' deaths; concerns about chronic wasting disease remain
There have been no cases of chronic wasting disease in people to date, the CDC says. But it is still investigating the potential risks.www.yahoo.com