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Jandar
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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 Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
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Broadcaster Ignores Truth About CJD Death
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control officially announced on its homepage on Thursday that test results showed the young American woman reported by the MBC current affairs program "PD Diary" as having died from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), the human form of "mad cow disease", did not die from that illness at all.
"PD Diary" allotted 14 minutes of airtime reporting on the woman who died earlier this year, and carried an interview of her mother saying her daughter may have died from "CJD" (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease). The news program carried a translated subtitle of the mother's comments, which misquoted her as saying the probable cause of her daughter's death was "vCJD". VCJD is a disease caused by eating beef from cattle infected by mad cow disease, while CJD is a disease that has nothing to do with cows. "PD Diary" portrayed a person who died of an illness completely unrelated to eating beef as having perished for just that reason.
Was this due to the ignorance of the "PD Diary" staff, or was it an intentional manipulation aimed at inciting public fears? Judging by how MBC has refused to apologize and issue a correction regarding numerous references to the mistranslation, there's a strong possibility that the broadcaster intended to incite public fears. After the CDC announcement was reported on Tuesday, "PD Diary" is dragging its feet, saying it would report on it if the announcement was a final conclusion, but the dead woman's parents still haven't been notified of the final results.
http://english.chosun.co.kr/w21data/...806180017.html |
Wow. Hearst would be proud. |
The facts are hard to counter? |
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Jandar
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Besides South Korea, where else do American beef exports go? And what is going on there? |
How would you know what's going on anywhere? This thing often doesn't show up for years. It can be a ticking timebomb. It's extremely rare, but if you get it, it's nasty. Makes me glad I'm a vegetarian. 
In Australia, Brits are not allowed to give blood, even if they haven't been in England since as long as 28 years ago.
The US considered a ban on British blood (or on blood from donors who had lived in Britain between 1980 and 1996), but I don't think it was put into place: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/355648.stm. I think France banned UK blood too. |
Why would France ban UK blood.
The second widest incidence of vCJD occurred in France (11).
The French herd had 900 cases of BSE.
It just doesn't make sense.
The above stats are found in the wiki under BSE. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
| How would you know what's going on anywhere? This thing often doesn't show up for years. It can be a ticking timebomb. |
Right. That's why we now test cows for the disease and take other precautions. |
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justin moffatt
Joined: 29 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 5:13 am Post subject: |
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What are the prevalence rates? It appears that a lot of misinformation exists regarding this issue. Combined with conspiracy/cover-up theories that may or may not have validity.
If this was a truly serious life threatening issue with high prevalence rates (and limited regulations and precautionary measures of detection) some advocacy groups or health organizations would be having a field day in America.
This is a purely political issue (as is has been in the past with Mad Cow).
Regardless of the Anti-American, Anti-Lee Government, Opposition Party members, Agricultural Workers, and others capitalizing on this issue (who have something to lose with impending FTA regulations), President Lee will go ahead anyway (with the 30 month stipluation).
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/06/113_26160.html
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/06/113_26225.html
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2008/06/123_26237.html |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:49 pm Post subject: |
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| justin moffatt wrote: |
If this was a truly serious life threatening issue with high prevalence rates (and limited regulations and precautionary measures of detection) some advocacy groups or health organizations would be having a field day in America.
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I would too would think people would start noticing perfectly healthy 30 year olds coming down with very odd neurological symptoms. |
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