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re: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease **updated pg 5

Posted on 11/19/23 at 10:02 pm to
Posted by JoseVargasTX
Heath, TX
Member since Sep 2011
719 posts
Posted on 11/19/23 at 10:02 pm to
They’ve ruled out any chance that he got it from an animal. Doing another spinal tap tomorrow is what I was told.
Posted by GeauxZone90
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2010
2936 posts
Posted on 11/19/23 at 10:09 pm to
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hey’ve ruled out any chance that he got it from an animal. Doing another spinal tap tomorrow is what I was told


Did he take the Covid vaccine?
Posted by XenScott
Pensacola
Member since Oct 2016
3167 posts
Posted on 11/19/23 at 10:13 pm to
It is extremely rare. One case per million people. Maybe he will get good news.
Posted by Volvagia
Fort Worth
Member since Mar 2006
51915 posts
Posted on 11/19/23 at 10:47 pm to
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They’ve ruled out any chance that he got it from an animal.


Oh GTFO with this.

With an potential incubation period of 40 years, how could they possibly do this?

I mean did he get a confirmed genetic test he had the latent gene?

There are variations where they can at best say it’s unlikely, but they can’t say “THERES ZERO CHANCE” absent that

The American beef supply is safe, commercially. Mostly because if there is any chance of mad cow disease, they kill the cow, the herd, and any cow that might have even looked at anything the original cow might have touched.

That doesn’t preclude hunted meat though. And given the time frame I doubt they would make such a definitive statement. Hell I’m not a hunter, nor is my family, but I’ve had a few meals made with hunted meat. All it takes is one to say there is no longer any chance. Over 40 years.
This post was edited on 11/19/23 at 11:55 pm
Posted by GREENHEAD22
Member since Nov 2009
19626 posts
Posted on 11/20/23 at 7:35 am to
Unless the understanding of the disease has advanced rapidly in the last 5 yrs or so I am not sure how they can definitively say that.

They know very little about transmission and it can stay dormant for decades. Symptoms starts at the very end of the disease life cycle.
This post was edited on 11/20/23 at 7:38 am
Posted by phunkatron
Member since Jun 2019
1444 posts
Posted on 11/21/23 at 9:19 am to
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They’ve ruled out any chance that he got it from an animal. Doing another spinal tap tomorrow is what I was told.


If he didn't get the prion from an animal, it was either a de novo production of the prion (which I guess has to be possible to some extent for prions to exist in the first place), or he ate human nervous tissue.
This post was edited on 11/21/23 at 9:21 am
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