Gene protects brain-eaters from mad cow-type disease - Yahoo! News

this is important -
as the disease is a PRION illness, and there have been no cures
whatever for prion-type diseases.

scrapie in sheep, Chronic-Wasting introduced into wild ungulates
by a ?Utah? Colo? research-lab, mad-cow, variant Creutzfeld-Jakob,
are ALL prion diseases.

hopefully, this may prevent infection in wild + domestic animals,
+ save the white-tail deer, elk, and other ungulates that are now
infected, exposed, or at-risk in (last count) FOURTEEN states in
the USA... from one point-source, thanks to interstate commerce,
Grrr!, and captive-herd sales of infected animals.

these states are now *permanently infected* as the prions are
in the soil and trapped / bound to clay-particles; absorbed by
plants, the herbivores then ingest them.


preventing the illness in deer + elk or any other species (beef, sheep...),
will also save HUMANS who eat those animals.
this is the first ray of hope that i have seen;
i am praying it works!

--- terry

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terry pride, APDT-Aus, apdt#1827, CVA, TDF
*wolves R wolves, dogs R dogs, + primates R us.*
tmp, sept-2007