NPDPSC Gambetti et al pleading for more autopsies on suspect CJD cases Dear
Clinician:
The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center
(www.cjdsurveillance.com) Supported by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
Dear Clinician:
The National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center (NPDPSC) monitors
the occurrence of prion disease through characterization of brain tissue
pathology from cases clinically suspected of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). As
the director of the NPDPSC, I want to make you aware of the following, which may
be helpful in your work with current and future cases of suspected CJD:
* The 14-3-3 and Tau tests performed on cerebrospinal fluid do not
definitively diagnose CJD and other prion diseases.
* Autopsy provides the only method to firmly diagnose CJD and to fully
classify the etiology of CJD (sporadic, familial, or acquired by infection as in
iatrogenic, or variant CJD). Autopsy also allows for the identification of
atypical cases and possible novel sources of infection such as chronic wasting
disease of elk and deer.
* Autopsies help to further our understanding of CJD. Tissues acquired at
autopsy by the Center are made available to laboratories to do prion research.
* Ideally, autopsies should be performed within 24 hours post mortem.
However, NPDPSC has successfully diagnosed cases autopsied up to seven days post
mortem.
* NPDPSC offers a free autopsy coordination service. We make all of the
arrangements, including locating the pathologist, arranging for transportation
if necessary, and coordinating with the funeral home. NPDPSC will cover all
costs associated with the autopsy.
* Pre-arranging the autopsy with NPDPSC can alleviate some of the stress on
the family and can result in a more rapid and efficient autopsy process. NPDPSC
staff are available to make autopsy arrangements at any time after the diagnosis
of suspected CJD has been made.
* Our autopsy network includes major health centers throughout the United
States. In most cases, an autopsy can be arranged and completed within 24 hours,
including any necessary transportation. In the event of any delays (usually
caused by weekend or holiday hours), the family will always be informed of the
status.
* Embalming and viewing are still possible after a cranial autopsy is
performed. NPDPSC staff members are available to consult with funeral homes to
insure that families can still have their desired memorial services.
* Because of IRB regulations, results are reported to a clinician
designated by the family. This facilitates answering questions and discussing
any appropriate next steps with family members.
* If the autopsy shows that the patient does not have CJD, NPDPSC can
assist families who would like further evaluation and a final diagnosis.
To make autopsy arrangements, or for more information about the autopsy
program, please contact our autopsy coordination team at 1-216-368-0587.
Thank you for helping us to further our understanding of this significant
health concern.
Sincerely,
Pierluigi Gambetti, M.D.
Professor and Director
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center
Case Western Reserve University
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>>>Autopsy provides the only method to firmly diagnose CJD and to
fully classify the etiology of CJD (sporadic, familial, or acquired by infection
as in iatrogenic, or variant CJD). Autopsy also allows for the identification of
atypical cases and possible novel sources of infection such as chronic wasting
disease of elk and deer.<<<
IT could also mean that it’s the only way the USDA INC PRION UNIT can keep
all human TSE prion disease NOT TIED WITH ANY LINK TO THE LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY,
and keep it all linked to a spontaneous mutation, from nothing, except maybe a
genetic TSE that is NOT linked to any gene mutation, and to continue to ignore
the possibility being linked to maybe an atypical BSE such as the atypical
hgBSE, hBSE, lBSE, or IBNC BSE $$$
AFTER what deep throat told me back in 2001-2002, and when the USDA
INC. came out and announced that Aretha Vinson did not have mad cow disease,
after her doctors diagnosed she did, and after all that mess in Korea, I knew
then I could never trust the USDA INC PRION UNIT CWRU again, and there have been
plenty other questionable nvCJD victims, all changed to sporadic CJD, and when
that could not explain it away, another fake name would be called in i.e.
sporadic FFI, sporadic GSS, the prionpathies, the prionopathies, or VPSP
Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy: A new sporadic disease of the prion
protein or just more PRIONBALONEY, anything but everything that is not, and
connot be tied to a zoonotic TSE prion disease in the USA, considering the USA
has more documented TSE prion disease in the wild and livestock than any other
country documented in the world, excluding the TSE prion disease documented at
the zoos across the world, I could no longer in my heart trust them. but what
the hell else do you do. like deep throat said, they hold all the cards, and
they will use each and every one of them.
WHAT happened with Aretha Vinsons case, and after year after year, after
more than a decade of trying to track human TSE CJD prion disease in the USA,
and the excuses used by the USDA INC PRION UNIT, time and time again,
CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSE, CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSE, CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSE, WE
CANNOT TELL YOU! WE CAN NEVER BREACH THE CONFIDENTIALITY CLAUSE. BUT,
Gambetti et al can run to the cattle industry and break such confidentiality
claus $$$ that’s o.k. ? no, it’s not o.k. ....TSS
Portsmouth woman did not die of mad cow-related condition, ___USDA___ says
By Nancy Young The Virginian-Pilot © May 7, 2008
Preliminary test results indicate that a 22-year-old Portsmouth woman who
died in April did not have an illness that has been associated with eating
contaminated beef, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official said this week.
"The epidemiologic characteristics of the illness and preliminary results
of the neuropathologic testing of brain tissue obtained at autopsy indicate that
the patient did not die of" a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD), which
has been associated with mad cow disease, said Richard Raymond, USDA
undersecretary for food safety. He was speaking Sunday to a group of Korean and
American reporters in Washington.
"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has just provided us
with that information, and I felt it was important to share with you today," he
told the group. The comment appears on a statement on the safety of the U.S.
beef supply that is available on the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service
Web site.
Aretha Vinson died April 9 at Bon Secours Maryview Medical Center in
Portsmouth. She had a degenerative brain condition that can be caused by a wide
variety of things, and concerns were raised that she might have had vCJD. The
state health department, CDC and the University of Virginia were involved in
testing to determine the cause of death and whether it indicated a public health
concern.
"There's no threat to the general public," said Michelle Peregoy, a
Virginia Department of Health spokeswoman. She would not say more, citing
patient confidentiality issues.
Virginia State University student Aretha Vinson has contracted a rare brain
disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a variant of Mad Cow Disease.
Virginia state health officials are investigating how Vinson contracted the
disease. Doctors suspect Vinson contracted the disease after having gastric
bypass surgery, possibly from tainted medical instruments. Vinson's family says
her health worsened after having gastric bypass surgery three months prior to
the diagnosis.
UPDATE: Vinson passed away at 5:30pm on Wednesday, April 9, 2008.
The program, which now faces charges for playing up the possibility that
the woman died of vCJD, said, “The CDC last Thursday announced the cause of
death of Aretha Vinson, who died of symptoms similar to vCJD.” It quoted the CDC
as saying although the suspected case received international media attention,
the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center determined that the
cause of death was not due to vCJD, a finding, it pointed out, that was similar
to an announcement by the Department of Agriculture.
22 year old sporadic CJD ???
we will never know ;
In a telephone interview with the Chosun Ilbo, CDC spokesman Dave Daigle on
Monday said the centers posted the announcement after performing their own
checkup once the NPDPSC finished its investigation. He added that because the
CDC only provide information on diseases, they have no plans to make a separate
press release on the issue including the result of the investigation. ...
Now, the cdc et al usually hide behind patient confidentiality to hide cjd
cases. but in this 22 years old, confidentiality was not the case, she was well
known around the world, and the cdc et al chose to hide her final diagnosis.
why, because it was another young victim in the USA with sporadic CJD ???
SEE FULL TEXT ;
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Portsmouth woman did not die of mad cow-related condition, USDA says
UPDATE Updated Jun.17, 2008 08:34 KST
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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Greetings everyone et al,
you all know how I feel about the USDA INC. NPDPSC PRION UNIT CWRU. I have
pretty much been outspoken about my feelings there, and why in my opinion they
are there. in my opinion, I also believe that the USDA et al have been
systematically, and in secret, culling the USA cattle herd of mad cow disease,
and this has been an ongoing for years, since the mad cows that were attempted
to be covered up, and then they got caught, and the other 9,200 plus that were
used with the least likely test to find. but, I feel compelled that I still must
post this anyway. ...
kind regards,
terry
Monday, January 14, 2013
Gambetti et al USA Prion Unit change another highly suspect USA mad cow
victim to another fake name i.e. sporadic FFI at age 16 CJD Foundation goes
along with this BSe
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DEEP THROAT TO TSS 2000-2001 (take these old snips of emails with how ever
many grains of salt you wish. ...tss)
The most frightening thing I have read all day is the report of Gambetti's
finding of a new strain of sporadic cjd in young people...Dear God, what in the
name of all that is holy is that!!! If the US has different strains of
scrapie.....why????than the UK...then would the same mechanisms that make
different strains of scrapie here make different strains of BSE...if the
patterns are different in sheep and mice for scrapie.....could not the BSE be
different in the cattle, in the mink, in the humans.......I really think the
slides or tissues and everything from these young people with the new strain of
sporadic cjd should be put up to be analyzed by many, many experts in
cjd........bse.....scrapie Scrape the damn slide and put it into
mice.....wait.....chop up the mouse brain and and spinal cord........put into
some more mice.....dammit amplify the thing and start the damned
research.....This is NOT rocket science...we need to use what we know and get
off our butts and move....the whining about how long everything takes.....well
it takes a whole lot longer if you whine for a year and then start the
research!!! Not sure where I read this but it was a recent press release or
something like that: I thought I would fall out of my chair when I read about
how there was no worry about infectivity from a histopath slide or tissues
because they are preserved in formic acid, or formalin or formaldehyde.....for
God's sake........ Ask any pathologist in the UK what the brain tissues in the
formalin looks like after a year.......it is a big fat sponge...the agent
continues to eat the brain ......you can't make slides anymore because the agent
has never stopped........and the old slides that are stained with Hemolysin and
Eosin......they get holier and holier and degenerate and continue...what you
looked at 6 months ago is not there........Gambetti better be photographing
every damned thing he is looking at.....
Okay, you need to know. You don't need to pass it on as nothing will come
of it and there is not a damned thing anyone can do about it. Don't even hint at
it as it will be denied and laughed at.......... USDA is gonna do as little as
possible until there is actually a human case in the USA of the nvcjd........if
you want to move this thing along and shake the earth....then we gotta get the
victims families to make sure whoever is doing the autopsy is credible,
trustworthy, and a saint with the courage of Joan of Arc........I am not
kidding!!!! so, unless we get a human death from EXACTLY the same form with
EXACTLY the same histopath lesions as seen in the UK nvcjd........forget any
action........it is ALL gonna be sporadic!!!
And, if there is a case.......there is gonna be every effort to link it to
international travel, international food, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. They will go
so far as to find out if a sex partner had ever traveled to the UK/europe, etc.
etc. .... It is gonna be a long, lonely, dangerous twisted journey to the truth.
They have all the cards, all the money, and are willing to threaten and carry
out those threats....and this may be their biggest downfall...
Thanks as always for your help. (Recently had a very startling revelation
from a rather senior person in government here..........knocked me out of my
chair........you must keep pushing. If I was a power person....I would be
demanding that there be a least a million bovine tested as soon as possible and
agressively seeking this disease. The big players are coming out of the woodwork
as there is money to be made!!! In short: "FIRE AT WILL"!!! for the very
dumb....who's "will"! "Will be the burden to bare if there is any coverup!"
again it was said years ago and it should be taken seriously....BSE will
NEVER be found in the US! As for the BSE conference call...I think you did a
great service to freedom of information and making some people feign
integrity...I find it scary to see that most of the "experts" are employed by
the federal government or are supported on the "teat" of federal funds. A scary
picture! I hope there is a confidential panel organized by the new government to
really investigate this thing.
You need to watch your back........but keep picking at them.......like a
buzzard to the bone...you just may get to the truth!!! (You probably have more
support than you know. Too many people are afraid to show you or let anyone else
know. I have heard a few things myself... you ask the questions that everyone
else is too afraid to ask.)
END...TSS
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Gambetti et al USA Prion Unit change another highly suspect USA mad cow
victim to another fake name i.e. sporadic FFI at age 16 CJD Foundation goes
along with this BSe
Thursday, January 17, 2013
TSE guidance, surgical, dental, blood risk factors, Part 4 Infection
control of CJD, vCJD and other human prion diseases in healthcare and community
settings (updated January 2013)
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Canada, U.S. agree on animal-disease measures to protect trade, while
reducing human and animal health protection
TSS
