ruskinr at aruba.ccit.arizona.edu (Robert H Ruskin) wrote:
>Besides being a microbiologist, I am also an environmental scientist. I
>currently subscribe to sci.environment and there was a post there that
>was of some interest to me, the microbiologist on BSE. A person wrote that
>BSE may not in fact be caused by prions, but rather from organo-phosphate
>pesticides that the British seem to literally dump over their cattle to
>ward off some fly.
>The post went on to say that once a cow has been diagnosed with Mad Cow
>Disease it becomes the property of the government so there is in fact
>very little known about what the cows *actually* die from, since
>researchers have very little access to the cows for study.
>What we may in fact be seeing is not a disease due to prions, as much as
>it may be one caused by pesticide accumulation within both within
>the cow that shows the neuro-degenerative problems that we see, as well
>as the people who die of alike symptoms. What we in fact may be
>witnessing is a disease caused by a bio-accumulated pesticide in the food
>chain.
>Until the British open up access of the cows to researchers, it will
>never be conclusively proven whether the problem is due in fact to a prion,
>or a Silent Spring.
>Robert H. Ruskin, M.Sc.
>Environmental Microbiologist
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