ABCNEWS.com Reports Exclusively On Research Suggesting Mad Cow May be Caused by Environmental Factors.Health/Medical Writers NEW YORK--(BW HealthWire)--May 29, 2001 What if it turns out that the human form of Mad Cow disease mad cow disease: see prion. mad cow disease or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) Fatal neurodegenerative disease of cattle. Symptoms include behavioral changes (e.g. is triggered by environmental factors - and not by infectious disease Infectious disease A pathological condition spread among biological species. Infectious diseases, although varied in their effects, are always associated with viruses, bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites and aberrant proteins known as prions. products? What if the scientific research on Mad Cow disease has been wrong thus far? These are some questions raised by ABCNEWS.com's Nicholas Regush in his latest "Second Opinion" column on the ABCNEWS.com web site. In his column, Regush has surveyed some controversial research coming out of England that suggests an association between Mad Cow disease, its human form - Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease or vCJD, and exposure to pesticides and high levels of manganese manganese (măng`gənēs, măn`–) [Lat.,=magnet], metallic chemical element; symbol Mn; at. no. 25; at. wt. 54.938; m.p. about 1,244°C;; b.p. about 1,962°C;; sp. gr. 7.2 to 7. , a heavy metal. More research needs to be done to understand the role the environment may play in these disorders, Regush says in his column, but he also points out why conventional science has rejected this theory. The above link will take you to the story ABCNEWS.com published Tuesday. If you choose to quote or reference these materials in any way, you must expressly credit "ABCNEWS.com" and "ABCNEWS.com's Nicholas Regush" as the source. The story is one example of the weekly column that Regush writes for ABCNEWS.com. The column, "Second Opinion," is written in the style of a traditional investigative column with a goal of making the public aware of the unknown, or unpublicized. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/SecondOpinion/secondopinion010525.html (Due to the length of this URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. , it may be necessary to copy and paste To copy files from one location to another or to copy text and images from one document to another. All modern operating systems and applications have a copy and paste capability that is typically selected from an Edit menu. See cut and paste and Win Copy between windows. this hyperlink A predefined linkage between one object and another. See hypertext. hyperlink - anchor into your Internet browser's URL address field.) |
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