Heb jij ook al prions in je spieren?

[Cees Binkhorst]

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=571&ncid=751&e=7&u=/nm/20021202/hl_nm/prions_proteins_dc

Nobel Laureate Warns of Prions in Animal Muscle
Mon Dec 2,10:24 AM ET

By Richard Woodman

LONDON (Reuters Health) - The scientist who won the Nobel prize for discovering prions, the abnormal proteins implicated in mad
cow disease, has called for all Britons to be tested for the deadly brain ailment after finding surprisingly high prion levels in the
muscles of mice infected with a similar illness, British newspapers reported Sunday.

Professor Stanley Prusiner of the University of California, San Francisco, told the Independent that the finding raised the "obvious
worry" that cows and sheep could be similarly affected. Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (news - web sites)
(BSE (news - web sites)), has been linked to a similar illness in humans who ate contaminated meat. Sheep can carry a related
illness called scrapie.

Until now, levels of prions in infected cow and sheep meat and muscle tissue were always believed to be low enough not to pose a
significant risk of transmission and the emphasis was to remove the brain and spinal cord, which harbor much higher levels.

[restant artikel weggelaten: moet een kwoot blijven :]

He called for testing of everyone in Britain to establish the true extent of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has killed 117
people since 1995.

[restant artikel weggelaten]

Ik ben geen slager, maar als de spieren nu ook al moeten worden weggehaald zijn we toch morgen met 16 miljoen vegetariers?

Groet,

Cees

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