Could food supplements and medications be inadvertent media for the spread of prion based brain diseases?
Multiple sources would suggest this is possible, even likely, due to the use of animal gelatins. This probability goes up even more when the medication itself is a glandular extract. Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies)(TSI), BSE and others known as “Mad Cow” disease are becoming very important to society and something we should all be aware of! The Nobel Prize has been awarded to Carleton Gajdusek for his Kuru/TSE research on the subject and to Stanley Prusiner for his TSE/Prion research. Pulitzer prize winning author Richard Rhodes wrote “Deadly Feasts” a controversial expose on the subject, and Oprah Winfrey dedicated a show to BSE/Mad Cow, and was promptly sued by Texas cattlemen, but the Courts upheld her show’s 1st Amendment right to Freedom of Speech! The Current official death toll stands at 81 in England, 2 in France, and perhaps still others may not yet be reported. Many French towns have ban beef use in school cafeterias, and France banned sale of beef thyroid glands i
