From: Randall Parker 

My own final conclusion about this issue: It makes more sense to spend
money on research to come up with either vaccines or drugs to treat prion
diseases than it
does to do larger scale testing of cattle. Most prion disease cases are
arising spontaneously and not from consumption of infected beef. Hundreds
of million spent
per year on more testing may save no lives at all. Whereas hundreds of millions spent
per year on resarch into prion disease treatment could save a few hundred in the US
and thousands more per year worldwide.

Randall Parker wrote:
> So far there have been no CJD cases in the US linked to eating beef. In
> Europe there have been cases of nvCJD that were linked to eating beef.
> But is that a different prion shape in the European cattle that causes a
> different prion shape in humans that is not like the human CJD prion
> shape? Does anyone know?
>
>
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=4047962&se
ction=news
>
>    Excerpt:
> Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease occurs spontaneously at a rate of about one
> case per 1 million people. It is incurable and always fatal. A related
> illness, known as new variant CJD, has been linked in Europe to eating
> meat from cattle infected with mad cow disease.
>

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