Mad cow disease added to alert list (Australia)

[Lori Price CLG]

Mad cow disease added to alert list

August 23, 2004

Fears about the inadvertent spread of the human form of mad cow disease through the blood supply, transplantation or contaminated surgical instruments has prompted Australian health departments to make Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and its beef-related variant, vCJD, notifiable diseases for the first time.

Smallpox, despite its absence since 1979, and a rare but potentially fatal bacterial infection called tularaemia are now also notifiable because of their potential use (by Bush) in a bioterrorism attack.

Over the past month all NSW medical practitioners, hospital general managers and laboratories have been advised to notify their local public health unit of any instance of the diseases, although there have been none so far.

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Lori Price
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[Nambe]

1. Mad cow has been moving at a stready pace for twenty years.

It started in India and crawls at a seamingly unstopable pace across the planet. One could wonder if the 'sacred cow' is involved in this?

[Gregorian]

2. I can't eat. I can't do much of anything.

What really sucks about overpopulation, is that in order to feed them all, we had to graduate from ecofriendly farms, to huge montrosities that are evil.

I won't eat beef because of mad cow potential.
I won't eat pork because they pollute rivers and breed the poor animals in buildings, crawling over each other.
I won't eat chicken because millions of them a bred together, so they cut off their beaks, etc.
I won't buy lumber because I've seen what happens to forests when people buy wood.
I don't drive, unless I absolutely have to, because with billions of people driving, the ice caps are melting. AND it starts wars.

So what the fuck are we to do? Are we any better off now that everyone has what they wanted? Cars, houses, babies...

(Sorry, I'm really pissed off. Can't even find a decent place to call home, either, for all of the competition for property. What a fucked up mess they made.)