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Hm... UM flees Saskatchewan, and then people there suddenly start dying of rare diseases? Connection? I wonder...
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As sympathetic as I try to be, I still have a great deal of trouble carting over CJD. "Oh no, potentially DOZENS could die from it this year! It's the most LETHAL DISEASE EVER!"
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: As sympathetic as I try to be, I still have a great deal of trouble carting over CJD. "Oh no, potentially DOZENS could die from it this year! It's the most LETHAL DISEASE EVER!"
you're in the UK, right? you could have CJD. you wouldn't know it until you started showing symptoms, which could take years. it's totally incurable, and who you are is slowly destroyed along with the ability to care for yourself. sounds pretty scary to me.
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quote:Originally posted by Prismatic Faye Valentine Fanboy: [QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [qb]you're in the UK, right? you could have CJD. you wouldn't know it until you started showing symptoms, which could take years. it's totally incurable, and who you are is slowly destroyed along with the ability to care for yourself. sounds pretty scary to me.
Yes. I could also have a brain tumor, or cancer, or Pakinson's disease, or any sort of disease that lies dormant. Worrying about it will do diddly squat.
The main thing that bugged me is that when the whole "mad cow" thing started, several people stopped eating beef. Which was slightly pointless, since after consuming possible infected cattle for over two decades, stopping AFTER they had the massive culls really wouldn't have done much at all.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam:
quote:Originally posted by Prismatic Faye Valentine Fanboy: [QUOTE]Originally posted by PsyLiam: [qb]you're in the UK, right? you could have CJD. you wouldn't know it until you started showing symptoms, which could take years. it's totally incurable, and who you are is slowly destroyed along with the ability to care for yourself. sounds pretty scary to me.
Yes. I could also have a brain tumor, or cancer, or Pakinson's disease, or any sort of disease that lies dormant. Worrying about it will do diddly squat.
The main thing that bugged me is that when the whole "mad cow" thing started, several people stopped eating beef. Which was slightly pointless, since after consuming possible infected cattle for over two decades, stopping AFTER they had the massive culls really wouldn't have done much at all.
yes, but those diseases all have treatments. they all have hope of recovery. once there is evidence of BSE in the US, i will stop eating beef until enough reforms are made that BSE can be stopped. there is no evidence for any BSE in the US up to this point, so stopping beef consumption after the first evidence (remember, this stuff gets tested for) would probably be a fairly effective way of preventing CJD, since there is little chance of being exposed up until this point. you're argument is also a little silly. it's like saying "well, you've been smoking cigarettes for 20 years, so you might as well just keep at it". granted, eating more contaminated beef doesn't give you a worse form of CJD (if you've already got it) the way cigarettes will worsen emphysema, but it is never a bad idea to eliminate risk factors after a problem has been identified in the public at large.
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Is this about me hating the Daedalus again?
And there's as much hope of recovery from Parkinson's as there is from CJD, surely?
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Yeah, but CJD turns your brain into a sponge. At least w/ Parkinson's, you just shake around a bit. Or more than a bit.
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It also destroys parts of your reasoning, your memory, and your ability to percive the outside world. And a whole host of other mental problems.
And it dosen't make you shake either. Parkinson's stops you from moving altogether. The drugs taken to counteract it are what cause you to shake.
And the only reason I didn't include Altzeimer's on that list is because I was sure I'd spell it wrong. Tim?
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Alzheimer's.
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Nix-pick his Nixpick!
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