From: Randall Parker 

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§
ion=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.

Randall Parker wrote:


> But DeHaven of the USDA says it would cost between $25 to $50 per head.
> At the $50 per head figure it would cost $1.5 bil per year for all
> slaughtered cattle in the US for a disease that has not yet been shown
> to have been caught by a single human in the United States from cattle
> raised in the United States. I don't know about you but I'd rather the
> $1.5 bil per year was spent on basic research on cancer or heart disease
> or perhaps on some neurological disease we have a real chance of getting
> like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.
>

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