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Brain Trust : The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer's Disease
Brain Trust The Hidden Connection Between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer's Disease
Author: Colm A. Kelleher
When the cattle-borne sickness known as Mad Cow Disease first appeared in America in 2003, authorities were quick to assure the nation that the outbreak was isolated, quarantined, and posed absolutely no danger to the general public. What we were not told was that the origins of the sickness may already have been here and susp...  more »
This illuminating exposé of the threat to our nation's health reveals for the first time how Mad Cow Disease (a.k.a. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) has jumped species, infecting humans in the form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), and may be hidden in the enormous increase in the number of Alzheimer's cases since 1979. Detailing the history and biology of Mad Cow Disease, Brain Trust discloses how an investigation into the mysterious deaths in a group of cannibals in a remote part of the world evolved into a research program in the United States that may have had unforeseen and frightening consequences. The shocking questions examined include: • Have millions of Americans already been exposed to the prions known to cause Mad Cow Disease through years of eating tainted beef? • Does the epidemic of prion disease spreading like wildfire through the nation's deer and elk pose a threat to hunters and venison eaters? • Are the cattle mutilations discovered in the last 30 years part of a covert, illegal sampling program designed to learn how far the deadly prions have spread throughout the nation's livestock and beef products? Exposing the devastating truth about Mad Cow Disease and a new theory of the possible consequences of a little-known government research program and the potential national health catastrophe that may be the result, Brain Trust inoculates Americans with an effective cure: the truth.
ISBN-13: 9780743499354
ISBN-10: 0743499352
Publication Date: 10/19/2004
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Paraview Pocket Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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I read this book in an evening and have already loaned it out to several others. Our government knows how a mad-cow panic would affect the meat industry--it's seen it happen in Canada and the UK--and won't likely disclose the types of information highlighted in this book. The symptoms of brain damage caused by CJD (the human form of mad-cow) closely resemble alzheimer's disease, and autopsies which would reveal the difference aren't covered by medicare, so are rarely performed. Do you eat meat? Then read this book and decide for yourself whether the huge amount of evidence presented in it should be better publicized.


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