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Originally posted by zeitghostIt also seems to depend on your personal genetics, this MV, MM, and VV thingie seems to control to some extent the speed at which it progresses.
Which is a happy thought.
It certainly ain't over yet coz the fat lady definitely hasn't sung.
I'd give it at least 100 years, if not more.
Predicting susceptibility and incubation time ... [Lancet Neurol. 2006] - PubMed - NCBI
Oh lovely.
Smoking was once said even to be healthy.
Sugar is not yet sufficiently demonised.
vCJD could be lurking for a lifetime.
In non-chemical areas, long-term results from mobile phone masts everywhere are some way off yet. I'm sure they're safe really.
I do know that we'll all die, I'd just rather it were later.
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Originally posted by russell View PostI remembering reading about it in the 90's, it was all over the papers about a potential epidemic. Looks like it is almost gone.
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Originally posted by zeitghost View PostAt 6:50 this morning they started talking about vCJD.
The mother of Claire McVey spoke.
Which, naturally, leads one to google and to find this:
An unthinkable death
Stone me.
Horrific.
Interesting table:
http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/documents/figs.pdf
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Thanks to the Today programme
At 6:50 this morning they started talking about vCJD.
The mother of Claire McVey spoke.
Which, naturally, leads one to google and to find this:
An unthinkable death
Stone me.
Horrific.
Interesting table:
http://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/documents/figs.pdfLast edited by zeitghost; 27 November 2013, 12:12.Tags: None
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