CDC keeps eye on zombie disease
CDC keeps eye on zombie disease
Posted: Oct 28, 2013 10:03 PM CDT <em class="wnDate">Monday,
October 28, 2013 11:03 PM EST</em>Updated: Oct 28, 2013 10:38 PM
CDT
Zombies will rise in three days. The ones that will come knocking on your
door this Halloween will only look the part.
But there are real diseases that cause people to take on the horror movie
characteristics. The medical community is keeping a close watch on them.
"These legends and these stories had to have come from somewhere so there
actually is a whole science of people looking back, where would this idea have
come from," Christopher Ziebell, M.D. said.
Dr. Christopher Ziebell, director of the Emergency Medical Department at
University Medical Center Brackenridge says there are several diseases that
cause patients to exhibit zombie-like behavior.
One is the human equivalent of mad cow disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob
disease.
"At first it causes hyper-agitation, psychiatric type symptoms but
eventually it becomes more like Alzheimer's to where they become more and more
forgetful and less and less able to interact," Ziebell said.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the United States has
reported between 279 and 352 cases a year.
In movies, shows, and literature, zombies are often depicted as being
created by an infectious virus, which is passed on via bites and contact with
bodily fluids. Harvard psychiatrist Steven Schlozman wrote a (fictional) medical
paper on the zombies presented in Night of the Living Dead External Web Site
Icon and refers to the condition as Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency
Syndrome caused by an infectious agent. The Zombie Survival Guide External Web
Site Icon identifies the cause of zombies as a virus called solanum. Other
zombie origins shown in films include radiation from a destroyed NASA External
Web Site Icon Venus External Web Site Icon probe (as in Night of the Living Dead
External Web Site Icon), as well as mutations of existing conditions such as
prions External Web Site Icon, mad-cow disease External Web Site Icon, measles
External Web Site Icon and rabies External Web Site Icon.
my mother (DOD 12/14/97 confirmed hvCJD), and many more of our loved
ones, were anything but zombie like. my mom was more like linda blair in the
exorcist, where she did everything but spin her head 360 degrees, she levitated
in bed, where it took 3 grown adults to hold here down. reminded me more of like
mad cow disease than zombies, so please Dr. Christopher Ziebell , call it what
it is, not what you wish it would be. sporadic CJD has now been linked to
atypical BSE and atypical Scrapie, all of which have been documented here in the
USA. as well, CWD is very worrisome to scientist of the potential transmission
to humans, so please, enough of the zombies. ...
this isn’t a joke, or a Halloween prank, CJD TSE human prion disease is
real. ...
Wednesday, October 09, 2013
WHY THE UKBSEnvCJD ONLY THEORY IS SO POPULAR IN IT'S FALLACY, £41,078,281
in compensation REVISED
Thursday, October 10, 2013
CJD REPORT 1994 increased risk for consumption of veal and venison and lamb
Monday, October 14, 2013
Researchers estimate one in 2,000 people in the UK carry variant CJD
proteins
Friday, August 16, 2013
*** Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) biannual update August 2013 U.K. and
Contaminated blood products induce a highly atypical prion disease devoid of
PrPres in primates
WHAT about the sporadic CJD TSE proteins ?
WE now know that some cases of sporadic CJD are linked to atypical BSE and
atypical Scrapie, so why are not MORE concerned about the sporadic CJD, and all
it’s sub-types $$$
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD cases rising North America updated report
August 2013
*** Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease CJD cases rising North America with Canada
seeing an extreme increase of 48% between 2008 and 2010
Sunday, October 13, 2013
CJD TSE Prion Disease Cases in Texas by Year, 2003-2012
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
*** NORDION (US), INC., AND BIOAXONE BIOSCIENCES, INC., Settles $90M Mad
Cow TSE prion Contamination Suit Cethrin(R)
*** Case 0:12-cv-60739-RNS Document 1 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/26/2012
Page 1 of 15
MAD COW TESTING ONLY CATCHES SOME MAD COWS
SPREADING IT ALL AROUND
Saturday, October 19, 2013
***A comparative study of modified confirmatory techniques and additional
immuno-based methods for non-conclusive autolytic Bovine spongiform
encephalopathy cases
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
VARIANT CJD PRESENTS DIFFERENTLY IN OLDER PATIENTS
Sunday, October 27, 2013
A Kiss of a Prion: New Implications for Oral Transmissibility
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