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Blood test to show whether Britain faces nvCJD epidemic

Oct. 3 /99 British Times Jonathan Leake



The test, which the story says has been already secretly proven on humans, can show the presence of the microscopic prions that cause variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) - the human form of BSE - long before any symptoms develop. Such a test, which will initially be used to screen samples held in blood banks rather than individuals, has been sought after for years by scientists.

At the moment vCJD and its equivalent in animals can be diagnosed only after death by examination of the brain. It means that there is no way of telling how many people are incubating the disease, to which tens of millions of people were exposed through eating infected beef products.



The procedure will also allow the screening of farm and zoo animals, potentially enabling the disease to be eradicated. Currently, about 2,000 cows a year develop the disease and many more are thought to be incubating it.



Last week, the story says, it emerged that Mary Jo Schmerr, the American researcher who perfected the test, had visited the Central Veterinary Laboratories at Weybridge, Surrey, and discussed developing a pilot screening programme in Britain for humans and animals. "In the first instance, it will be used to screen existing blood banks, but it could be made available to individuals in the future," she said.



An agriculture ministry spokesman was cited as saying that a team had been set up to evaluate the test and then begin a screening programme for humans and animals, adding, "This could be a very powerful tool in the battle against BSE and CJD."



Schmerr was cited as saying she was overwhelmed by the consequences of what she had developed, adding, "This test could lift a weight from the shoulders of millions of people - or tell them they are going to die from a horrible disease."



So far 46 people are known to have died from vCJD in Britain. The question is whether they are just isolated cases or the first of millions.



The story goes on to say that Schmerr works for the American government's National Animal Disease Centre in Ames, Iowa, where she developed the test to see how common BSE-type diseases were in animals such as elk. The test looks for a specific abnormal protein associated with such diseases and is so sensitive that it can detect less than one part per billion.



When the test was proven, however, she realised that the same protein was produced in human forms of the disease, meaning the test could be used on people.



Comment (webmaster):



The 4 government labs involved in TSE (Ames, Pullman, NIH, and Rocky Mtn) have done consistently outstanding work despite (because of?) small staffs, cramped lab space, and scrambling for budgets. Without them, where would we be today on diagnosis, detection, and in vitro therapy assays?



The webmaster has learned that the Schmerr blood tests on humans have been ongoing for 18 months; it is possible that the English had some positive tonsilectomies where blood samples could be taken and that these have since gone clinical. Reportedly, some, but not all, US sporadic CJD cases have tested positive, some perhaps blood donors. Further, Schmerr is said to be most unhappy with the decision in Dec 98 to reverse the blood recall on Doug McEwen. Million of doses of medicine subsequently were injected worldwide. (There is no information on whether a test was done there, or if one could still be done.)



At her talk at the Tubingen meeting, Schmerr reported lambs in scrapie environment can become prp-res positive in blood at 4 weeks of age (even one at 2 weeks!). Test works on elk, md, sheep, hamster. This gives rise to hopes that provided facilities are not too contaminated with persistent agent, livestock producers could test their way out of the disease.



The August 1999 MJ Schmerr article in J Chrom. provides some technical aspects of the assay but does not answer many questions about where things are as of now.



Dr.Mary Jo Schmerr email address is mschmerr@nadc.ars.usda.gov. Her title is Research Chemist, National Animal Disease Center, Respiratory & Neurologic Disease Research Ames, Iowa tel (515) 239-8287 X287 fax (515) 239-8458 web









Incredible French disclosures: bovine brain injections

Lancet Volume 354, Number 9186  9 October 1999

Jacques Verdrager



Risk of transmission of BSE via drugs of bovine origin

... A possible way that human beings can be infected is exposure to BSE through injectable pharmaceutical drugs containing bovine brain, bovine spinal cord, or bovine pituitary-derived hormones, and via implanted materials of bovine origin such as cowgut (non-synthetic surgical sutures: bovine catgut).



In France, during the 1980s, these injectable drugs and implants may have posed a risk of transmission of BSE to human beings, especially sinceFrance was one of the biggest markets for UK beef. There were several injectable drugs derived from cattle.



Fresh bovine spinal cord solution, equivalent to 3 grams of fresh spinal cord per ampoule for intramuscular use, was recommended for tissue repair and used in the treatment of varicous ulcer, decubitus ulcer, duodenum or stomach ulceration, nocturnal enuresis, asthma, and hypertension.



A dry extract of bovine brain and bovine spinal cord was given intramuscularity for the treatment of asthenia, fatigue, and convalescence. Bovine somatotropin (intramuscular or subcutaneous) was used for treatment of decubitus ulcer, leg ulcers, and burns. It was also used, unofficially, to increase muscle strength in weight lifters and body builders .



Bovine thyroid-stimulating hormone or anterior pituitary bovine thyrotropin was used intramuscularly as a stimulation test for the euthyroid gland. Bovine posterior pituitary extract (continuous intravenous drip) was used in obstetrics for induced labour, induced delivery, uterine inertia, uterine haemorrhage, and also in haemoptysis and digestive-tract bleeding.



There are other drugs that contain adrenal cortex extracts, pancreas-derived hormone, or lung-derived anticoagulant that may have been a risk to human beings. Bovine adrenal cortex extract given intravenously or intramuscularly was used for the stimulation of immune defences in acute or chronic respiratory infections and in the treatment of shock; bovine pancreas-derived insulin was used in the treatment of diabetes; and bovine lung-derived heparin was used in the treatment of acute thrombophlebitis. Bovine lungs may occasionally be contaminated by brain tissue because brain emboli may occur after stunning.2



In France, most of the drugs of bovine origin were banned in July, 1992 (following WHO recommendations). Bovine catgut was banned in August, 1996. Consideration was also given to the risk/benefit ratio, which explains why bovine insulin was used until 1996. Homoeopathic drugs of bovine origin were banned in July, 1992, but paradoxically, brain, spinal cord, and eyes were not removed from the human food chain until September, 1996.



Therefore, to rule out iatrogenic transmission of BSE through injectable drugs or implants as a possible cause of new variant CJD in the UK seems difficult.



1 Verdrager J. New variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and bovine pituitary growth hormone. Lancet 1998; 351: 112-13.



2 Garland T, Bauer N, Bailey M. Brain emboli in the lungs of cattle after stunning. Lancet 1996; 348: 610.



Vaccines may have used BSE serum

October 8, 1999 Electronic Telegram Article:By David Brown, Agriculture Editor



MILLIONS of people, including children, may have been treated with vaccines derived from cattle infected with BSE, the bovine brain disease, despite warnings that they might not be safe.

Officials of the BSE inquiry admitted yesterday that they had failed to establish what happened to batches produced from cattle serum in the 1980s, when BSE was reaching a peak. Pharmaceutical companies had so far declined to volunteer the information, they said.



It is known that vaccines for rubella, whooping cough, polio, measles and mumps as well as yellow fever, cholera and typhoid contained bovine material, some of it from Britain. Officials said: "It is possible that we will never know whether all these vaccines were destroyed or whether they were used."



Concerns about the safety of vaccines produced from cattle serum had been raised in 1989. Manufacturers had said then that they found it difficult to give an accurate assessment of suspect products likely to be used for children. It was believed that the last products produced from British cattle serum were withdrawn in 1991. BSE has so far been linked to the deaths of 46 people from a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.



Comment (webmaster): In other words, if they didn't get it from eating beef, they got it later because of a medical procedure. During the peak years of the BSE epidemic, was informed consent obtained from patients for being injected with bovine material? These medical practises must have been known to a great many physicians -- why are they just being disclosed no, some 15 years into the epidemic?



The Lancet article does not provide numbers of people exposed to high quantitites extremely high risk material. France has tens of thousands of weight lifters alone. Many of the practises are medical quackery -- no peer-reviewed study supports bovine brain injections relieving fatigue etc etc.



We also know that bovine and ovine dura mater (brain membranes) were widely used in human brain and reconstructive surgery. This material has long been known to transmit TSE. It is probably far worse to transplant infectious material directly at the brain than simply to receive an intramuscular injection which in turn is far more efficient than dietary exposure.



A German medical doctor collected sheep dura mater for the Lyodura company may be related to 1991 CJD death from a brain surgery carried out in 1983. While it was apparently never resolved whether this patient had mad cow disease, mad sheep disease, nvCJD, or ordinary CJD, the article does establish that both bovine and human dura mater were routinely used in brain surgery at that time and through 1986. Trans-species use was evidently so routine that the hospital didn't bother to record the species or company; the surgeon evidently did not know either.



A British newspaper reports today:





"The French food safety council said that Britain still expects around 3,000 cases of BSE this year, an incidence of 650 cases per million head [about 1 per 1000] of cattle compared with between 1.5 and 2 per million in France. It suggests waiting until 2001 to assess the success of the British measures. It also raised doubts about British contentions that cattle are being contaminated _only_ by maternal transmission and contaminated animal feed".