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Mad Cow Disease Is No Threat.
Five years ago in 2003, there was a scare of Mad Cow Disease. People had made up stories that you could get it from a McDonald's Burger. That is not true. According to a Time Magazine, no one has ever died from it. Please respond especially if you have worked or studied in the medical field.
 JoeCool  06 Jul 2008 17:43
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True it's mad to think otherwise.
 
 keepmindok  16 Sep 2008 14:30
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That fact is the chemicals building up in the atmosphere, creating an inhabited earth either off the milk production or they fears of trains. It support the case of back when trains were first crossing the country, Its modern evidence.
 
 Brake  07 Jul 2008 00:52
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It absolutely is real. Hidell names the disease and it has been scientifically shown to be caused by prions which are dangerous proteins which do damage the brain. The prions form when cows eat remnants of other cows ground into their feed. In fact societies practicing ritual canibalism in the past encountered the same disease within humans and it is well documented.

The greatest eye opener in the mad cow scare shouldn't necessarily be the risk of the disease itself but instead the unbelievably unnatural means the Western World goes through to raise its food supply. What were we thinking? Why were cows ever eating cow remnants?

Oh, and if you're still convinced there's no risk then go ahead and have that fried brains sandwich. I hear they're delicious.
 
 Grenache  08 Jul 2008 14:14
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 In the United States was it caused by imported beef? Was an act of agro-terrorism?
by  JoeCool
 18 Sep 2008 20:04
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Mad cow is real... It destroys the part of the brain that reasons correctly... Perhaps you have it.
 
 RICOSOUTH  06 Jul 2008 21:31
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 As some who lives in the United States, I think Anthrax is a bigger threat.
by  JoeCool
 05 Aug 2008 01:23
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The human variant is called Creutzfeldt's Jakobs disease and people certainly have died from it. Mostly they got it from eating meat from infected animals so, yes, you can get it from a burger. In fact, you are more likely to get it from a burger than other forms of meat since burgers are usually made from the less savoury parts of the animal's carcass left over when the prime cuts have been taken.

The disease has a long incubation period so it's still possible that there will be mass epidemics resulting in a huge number of deaths.
 
 Hidell  06 Jul 2008 21:26
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 Has such events ever happened in the United States? I once I heard a silly rumors about McDonald's going out of business.
by  JoeCool
 23 Jul 2008 00:40
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Take into account how hard the government worked to make sure it never spread or was allowed to progress in people who did get it. Now if the government didn't bother maybe the disease may have killed some but we will never know unless it gets a chance to spread.
 
 Smito  06 Jul 2008 18:43
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 I wanted to see what other people thought, I know that nobody has died from it and you can't get it from eating a burger.
by  JoeCool
 06 Jul 2008 22:34
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Though I don't personally work in the Medical field, my friend does and according to her, there is no real threat.
 
 Maggie1  06 Jul 2008 18:05
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