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Mad cows disease

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Zorro

Warren Scout
Hi, a girl in my work has the human equivelant of BSE, I don't know much about this but apparently it is highly contagious.
As far as I am aware does it only affect 'hooved' animals???

Is my little bunny in any danger as I have been in close contact with this girl for 3 days??? :?:?:?:shock::shock::shock::?:?:?
 
Ummm...... If she has CJD (human BSE) then she got it from eating beef infected. It's not contagious, that is unless you plan to kill her and eat her offal or spinal column (sorry to be blunt but thats the way it is :lol:)

You and your bunny are perfectly safe, I just feel sorry for the girl. :(
 
Siona, I love that one of your bunnies is called Gladys Emmanuelle, if I get another I may have to call him Arkwright or Ger.Ger.Ger.Ger.Granville!!! lol :lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
Zorro said:
Siona, I love that one of your bunnies is called Gladys Emmanuelle, if I get another I may have to call him Arkwright or Ger.Ger.Ger.Ger.Granville!!! lol :lol::lol::lol::lol:
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Thanks :lol: She has a rather large bosom so it seemed to fit! :lol:
 
poor poor girl. She has CJD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt-Jakob_Disease

It is caused by a thing (only way to describe it really) called a prion. This basically goes in and unlocks all the proteins in your brain making them useless. It is like alziehmers (sp) but also means you also loose physical control of your body. It is fatal.

You can get it unless you consume infected brain, spinal column or lymph nodes or having injections for things like human growth hormone or from having a genetic disposition to it so you can't possibly get it from her.

and actually the disease as it has panned out does not seem that easy to catch from infected beef either. I think the number of humans that died from new varient CJD which is the one scientists think might be caused by eating infected beef is very low (in the hundreds since it was first discovered in 1996 and falling each year...there could be an underlying sink of people that haven't gone on to develop it but considering it would have been in cattle for possibly 20 years by now, that seems increasingly unlikely)
 
That poor girl, and her family as well. They must be going through hell if that is what she's got. What an awful way to lose someone you care for.

I find it inappropriate that some are making jokes about a someone that is now dying in a horrific way. Would you make jokes if she had cancer? Somehow I don't think so.
 
These cases are extremely rare and far between, and sufferers do become extremely debilitated, so I would be suprised if she would still be in a state to work by the the time diagnosis was reached TBH.
I apologise if I caused offense with my comment, it was meant only to set OP's mind at rest and lighten the tone somewhat.
 
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