Calves Under 12 Months of Age No Longer Sampled for Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy (BSE)
Beginning September 24, 2014, USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service (APHIS) Veterinary Services (VS) will stop collecting samples from
calves less than 12 months of age as part of its ongoing BSE surveillance
testing. This is a change from the current process where cattle of any age
showing central nervous system (CNS) signs are tested for BSE.
We are making this change for several reasons:
Classical BSE has never been detected in an animal born in the United
States, and we’ve tested more than one million animals since the beginning of
the BSE surveillance program. BSE has never been detected in cattle less than 12
months of age worldwide. Neither the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE)
nor the VS BSE surveillance system assigns a surveillance value or points to
cattle less than 12 months of age. To continue to test these young animals for
BSE is neither an effective nor a responsible use of limited Federal funds and
government resources.
This change applies only to the BSE Ongoing Surveillance Program. If
epidemiological investigations of BSE cases lead to animals less than 12 months
of age, they will be tested.
For additional information contact:
Cattle Health Center
USDA APHIS VS SPRS
Email address: VS.SPRS.CattleHealthCenter@aphis.usda.gov
***
>>> Classical BSE has never been detected in an animal born in the
United States, and we’ve tested more than one million animals since the
beginning of the BSE surveillance program.
well, when you stack the deck, you can have any card you want. ...tss
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy TSE Prion Disease North America
2014
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy TSE Prion Disease have now been
discovered in a wide verity of species across North America. typical C-BSE,
atypical L-type BASE BSE, atypical H-type BSE, atypical H-G BSE, of the bovine,
typical and atypical Scrapie strains, in sheep and goats, with atypical Nor-98
Scrapie spreading coast to coast in about 5 years. Chronic Wasting Disease CWD
in cervid is slowly spreading without any stopping it in Canada and the USA and
now has mutated into many different strains. Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy
TME outbreaks. These Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy TSE Prion Disease
have been silently mutating and spreading in different species in North America
for decades.
The USDA, FDA, et al have assured us of a robust Triple BSE TSE prion
Firewall, of which we now know without a doubt, that it was nothing but ink on
paper. Since the 1997 mad cow feed ban in the USA, literally tons and tons of
banned mad cow feed has been put out into commerce, never to return, as late as
December of 2013, serious, serious breaches in the FDA mad cow feed ban have
been documented. The 2004 enhanced BSE surveillance program was so flawed, that
one of the top TSE prion Scientist for the CDC, Dr. Paul Brown stated ; Brown,
who is preparing a scientific paper based on the latest two mad cow cases to
estimate the maximum number of infected cows that occurred in the United States,
said he has "absolutely no confidence in USDA tests before one year ago" because
of the agency's reluctance to retest the Texas cow that initially tested
positive.
see ;
The BSE surveillance and testing have also been proven to be flawed, and
the GAO and OIG have both raised serious question as to just how flawed it has
been (see GAO and OIG reports). North America has more documented TSE prion
disease, in different documented species (excluding the Zoo BSE animals in the
EU), then any other place on the Globe. This does not include the very
likelihood that TSE prion disease in the domestic feline and canine have been
exposed to high doses of the TSE prion disease vid pet food. To date, it’s still
legal to include deer from cwd zone into pet food or deer food. Specified Risk
Material i.e. SRM bans still being breach, as recently as just last month.
nvCJD or what they now call vCJD, another case documented in Texas last
month, with very little information being released to the public on about this
case? with still the same line of thought from federal officials, ‘it can’t
happen here’, so another vCJD blamed on travel of a foreign animal disease from
another country, while ignoring all the BSE TSE Prion risk factors we have here
in the USA and Canada, and the time that this victim and others, do spend in the
USA, and exposed to these risk factors, apparently do not count in any way with
regard to risk factor. a flawed process of risk assessment.
sporadic CJD, along with new TSE prion disease in humans, of which the
young are dying, of which long duration of illness from onset of symptoms to
death have been documented, only to have a new name added to the pot of prion
disease i.e. sporadic GSS, sporadic FFI, and or VPSPR. I only ponder how a
familial type disease could be sporadic with no genetic link to any family
member? when the USA is the only documented Country in the world to have
documented two different cases of atypical H-type BSE, with one case being
called atypical H-G BSE with the G meaning Genetic, with new science now showing
that indeed atypical H-type BSE is very possible transmitted to cattle via oral
transmission (Prion2014). sporadic CJD and VPSPR have been rising in Canada,
USA, and the UK, with the same old excuse, better surveillance. You can only use
that excuse for so many years, for so many decades, until one must conclude that
CJD TSE prion cases are rising. a 48% incease in CJD in Canada is not just a
blip or a reason of better surveillance, it is a mathematical rise in numbers.
More and more we are seeing more humans exposed in various circumstance in the
Hospital, Medical, Surgical arenas to the TSE Prion disease, and at the same
time in North America, more and more humans are becoming exposed to the TSE
prion disease via consumption of the TSE prion via deer and elk, cattle, sheep
and goats, and for those that are exposed via or consumption, go on to further
expose many others via the iatrogenic modes of transmission of the TSE prion
disease i.e. friendly fire. I pondered this mode of transmission via the victims
of sporadic FFI, sporadic GSS, could this be a iatrogenic event from someone
sub-clinical with sFFI or sGSS ? what if?
Two decades have passed since Dr. Ironside first confirmed his first ten
nvCJD victims in 1995. Ten years later, 2005, we had Dr. Gambetti and his first
ten i.e. VPSPR in younger victims. now we know that indeed VPSPR is
transmissible. yet all these TSE prion disease and victims in the USA and Canada
are being pawned off as a spontaneous event, yet science has shown, the
spontaneous theory has never been proven in any natural case of TSE prion
disease, and scientist have warned, that they have now linked some sporadic CJD
cases to atypical BSE, to atypical Scrapie, and to CWD, yet we don’t here about
this in the public domain. We must make all human and animal TSE prion disease
reportable in every age group, in ever state and internationally, we must have a
serious re-evaluation and testing of the USA cattle herds, and we must ban
interstate movement of all cervids. Any voluntary effort to do any of this will
fail. Folks, we have let the industry run science far too long with regards to
the TSE prion disease. While the industry and their lobbyist continues to funnel
junk science to our decision policy makers, Rome burns. ...end
REFERENCES
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy TSE Prion Disease North America
2014
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
MAD COW USDA TSE PRION COVER UP or JUST IGNORANCE, for the record AUGUST
2014
Singeltary Response to USDA, and USDA
RESPONSE TO SINGELTARY ON HARVARD BSE RISK ASSESSMENT
Owens, Julie
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. [flounder9@verizon.net]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 1:09 PM
To: FSIS RegulationsComments
Subject: [Docket No. FSIS-2006-0011] FSIS Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Page 1 of 98
FSIS, USDA, REPLY TO SINGELTARY
Thursday, October 02, 2014
[Docket No. APHIS-2013-0064] Concurrence With OIE Risk Designations for
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
2014 HUMAN MAD COW NVCJD CONFIRMED TEXAS
Lab tests have confirmed a diagnosis of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
(CJD) in a patient who recently died in Texas. Variant CJD is a rare, fatal
brain disorder, first described in 1996 in the United Kingdom and associated
with beef consumption overseas.
This is the fourth case ever reported in the United States. In each of the
three previous cases, infection likely occurred outside the United States,
including the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. The history of this fourth
patient includes extensive travel to Europe and the Middle East, and infection
likely occurred outside the United States. The CDC and DSHS continue to
investigate the case.
There are no Texas public health concerns or threats associated with this
case.
CDC Confirmation Information: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/vcjd/other/confirmed-case-in-texas.htm
CDC Fact Sheet: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/vcjd/factsheet_nvcjd.htm
Texas CJD Information: http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/idcu/disease/creutzfeldt-jakob/
Last updated June 02, 2014
CONFIRMED HUMAN BSE AKA MAD COW DISEASE vCJD TEXAS USA
CONFIRMED HUMAN BSE AKA MAD COW DISEASE vCJD TEXAS USA
Monday, June 02, 2014 Confirmed Variant CJD Case in Texas
SO, 4 months after the fact and still no word on this case. no information
what so ever. the silence is deafening $$$
***1988***
*** Evidence That Transmissible Mink Encephalopathy Results from Feeding
Infected Cattle ***
Over the next 8-10 weeks, approximately 40% of all the adult mink on the
farm died from TME.
snip...
The rancher was a ''dead stock'' feeder using mostly (>95%) downer or
dead dairy cattle...
*** CONFIRMED HUMAN BSE AKA MAD COW DISEASE vCJD TEXAS USA ***
Monday, June 02, 2014 Confirmed Variant CJD Case in Texas
SO, 4 months after the fact and still no word on this case. no information
what so ever. the silence is deafening $$$
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Seven main threats for the future linked to prions
***Also, a link is suspected between atypical BSE and some apparently
sporadic cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. These atypical BSE cases
constitute an unforeseen first threat that could sharply modify the European
approach to prion diseases.
Second threat
snip...
Monday, October 10, 2011
EFSA Journal 2011 The European Response to BSE: A Success Story
snip...
*** but the possibility that a small proportion of human cases so far
classified as "sporadic" CJD are of zoonotic origin could not be excluded.
Moreover, transmission experiments to non-human primates suggest that some TSE
agents in addition to Classical BSE prions in cattle (namely L-type Atypical
BSE, Classical BSE in sheep, transmissible mink encephalopathy (TME) and chronic
wasting disease (CWD) agents) might have zoonotic potential.
snip...
Sunday, August 09, 2009
CJD...Straight talk with...James Ironside...and...Terry Singeltary... 2009
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
BSE-The Untold Story - joe gibbs and singeltary 1999 – 2009
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 ***
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) biannual update (August 2014), with updated
guidance on decontamination of gastrointestinal endoscopy equipment
Research and analysis
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) Calls for Briefing on Beef Recalled for Mad Cow
Potential Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Missouri Firm Recalls Ribeye and Carcass Products That May Contain
Specified Risk Materials 4,012 pounds of fresh beef products because the dorsal
root ganglia may not have been completely removed
Monday, July 28, 2014
Mitigating the Risk of Transmission and Environmental Contamination of
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies 2013 Annual Report
Sunday, July 06, 2014
Dietary Risk Factors for Sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: A Confirmatory
Case-Control Study
Conclusions—The a priori hypotheses were supported.
*Consumption of various meat products may be one method of transmission of
the infectious agent for sCJD.
***In addition, non-human primates are specifically susceptible for
atypical BSE as demonstrated by an approximately 50% shortened incubation time
for L-type BSE as compared to C-type. Considering the current scientific
information available, it cannot be assumed that these different BSE types pose
the same human health risks as C-type BSE or that these risks are mitigated by
the same protective measures.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
4th MAD COW DISEASE U.S.A. CALIFORNIA ATYPICAL L-TYPE BSE 2012
RESPONSE TO PUBLIC COMMENTS
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Update, October 31, 2005
INTRODUCTION The United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and
Inspection Service (FSIS) held a public meeting on July 25, 2006 in Washington,
D.C. to present findings from the Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy Update, October 31, 2005 (report and model located on the FSIS
website:
Comments on technical aspects of the risk assessment were then submitted to
FSIS. Comments were received from Food and Water Watch, Food Animal Concerns
Trust (FACT), Farm Sanctuary, R-CALF USA, Linda A Detwiler,
and Terry S. Singeltary. This document provides itemized replies to the
public comments received on the 2005 updated Harvard BSE risk assessment. Please
bear the following points in mind:
IN SHORT, AND IN A NUT SHELL ;
(Adopted by the International Committee of the OIE on 23 May 2006)
11. Information published by the OIE is derived from appropriate
declarations made by the official Veterinary Services of Member Countries. The
OIE is not responsible for inaccurate publication of country disease status
based on inaccurate information or changes in epidemiological status or other
significant events that were not promptly reported to the Central Bureau,
IT is of my opinion, that the OIE and the USDA et al, are the soul reason,
and responsible parties, for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy TSE prion
diseases, including typical and atypical BSE, typical and atypical Scrapie, and
all strains of CWD, and human TSE there from, spreading around the globe.
I have lost all confidence of this organization as a regulatory authority
on animal disease, and consider it nothing more than a National Trading
Brokerage for all strains of animal TSE, just to satisfy there commodity. AS i
said before, OIE should hang up there jock strap now, since it appears they will
buckle every time a country makes some political hay about trade protocol,
commodities and futures. IF they are not going to be science based, they should
do everyone a favor and dissolve there organization.
JUST because of low documented human body count with nvCJD and the long
incubation periods, the lack of sound science being replaced by political and
corporate science in relations with the fact that science has now linked some
sporadic CJD with atypical BSE and atypical scrapie, and the very real threat of
CWD being zoonosis, I believed the O.I.E. has failed terribly and again, I call
for this organization to be dissolved. ...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
O.I.E. BSE, CWD, SCRAPIE, TSE PRION DISEASE Final Report of the 80th
General Session, 20 - 25 May 2012
Thursday, December 20, 2012
OIE GROUP RECOMMENDS THAT SCRAPE PRION DISEASE BE DELISTED AND SAME OLD BSe
WITH BOVINE MAD COW DISEASE
Monday, November 30, 2009
*** USDA AND OIE COLLABORATE TO EXCLUDE ATYPICAL SCRAPIE NOR-98 ANIMAL
HEALTH CODE, DOES NOT SURPRISE ME $
Thursday, October 02, 2014
[Docket No. APHIS-2013-0064] Concurrence With OIE Risk Designations for
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
BSE YOUNGEST AGE STATISTICS UNDER 30 MONTHS
http://bseyoungestage.blogspot.com/
http://bseyoungestage.blogspot.com/
***In addition, non-human primates are specifically susceptible for
atypical BSE as demonstrated by an approximately 50% shortened incubation time
for L-type BSE as compared to C-type. Considering the current scientific
information available, it cannot be assumed that these different BSE types pose
the same human health risks as C-type BSE or that these risks are mitigated by
the same protective measures.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
4th MAD COW DISEASE U.S.A. CALIFORNIA ATYPICAL L-TYPE BSE 2012
Docket No: 02-088-1 Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002;
Possession, Use, and Transfer of Biological Agents and Toxins
Subject: Docket No: 02-088-1 RE-Agricultural
Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002;
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:54:57 –0600
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
To: regulations@aphis.usda.gov Docket No: 02-088-1
Title: Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act
of 2002; Possession, Use, and Transfer of Biological Agents and Toxins
Greetings,
i would like to kindly submit to this docket and
warn of the potential for biological 'suitcase bombs' from civilian air-traffic
populations from known BSE/FMD and other exotic animal disease pathogens coming
into the USA. please be warned;
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 08:42:56 –0800
Reply-To: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
Sender: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy
From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
Subject: USA SEALED BORDERS AND THE ''USCS''
(unspecified species coding system)
MORE POTENTIAL B.S.eee Change in Disease Status
of Greece With Regard to Foot-and-Mouth [Federal Register: March 21, 2002
(Volume 67, Number 55)]
snip...
Under Sec. 94.11, meat and other animal products
of ruminants and swine, including ship stores, airplane meals, and baggage
containing these meat or animal products, may not be imported into the United
States except in accordance with Sec. 94.11 and the applicable requirements of
the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service at 9 CFR
chapter III.
snip...
From an economic standpoint, the proposed rule
would have little or no impact on U.S. animal stock and commodities. There are
two reasons. First, the proposed rule would not remove other disease-based
restrictions on the importation of ruminants or swine (and certain meat and
other products from those animals) from Greece into the United States. Because
bovine spongiform encephalopathy is considered to exist in Greece, the
importation of ruminants and meat, meat products, and certain other products of
ruminants that have been in Greece is prohibited.
snip...
========================
What are the U.S. imports of affected animals or
animal products from the country?
Very few products that would be of risk for
transmission of BSE were imported into the US from Greece during 2000 or 2001
(January - April). Due to the above mentioned import ban, no live ruminants,
ruminant meat, meal made from ruminants, or other high risk products from
ruminants were imported from Greece during this time period. In 2001 (January -
April), 3000 kg of enzymes and prepared enzymes and 5 kg of medicants containing
antibiotics for veterinary use were imported. The data do not provide a species
of origin code for these products, therefore they may not contain any ruminant
product. Sources: World Trade Atlas
What is the level of passenger traffic arriving
in the United States from the affected country? Approximately 185,000 direct
flights from Greece arrived to US airports in fiscal year 2000. Also, an unknown
number of passengers from Greece arrived via indirect flights. Under APHIS-PPQ's
agriculture quarantine inspection monitoring, 584 air passengers from Greece
were sampled for items of agricultural interest in fiscal year 2000.
Of these passengers, 14 carried meat (non-pork)
items that could potentially transmit pathogens that cause BSE;
most passengers carried from one to two kilograms
(kg) of meat, although one passenger in November 1999 carried 23 kg of meat in a
suitcase. Florida, Massachusetts, and New York were the reported destinations of
these passengers. None of the passengers with meat items reported plans to visit
or work on a ranch or farm while in the US. Source: US Department of
Transportation, and APHIS-PPQ Agricultural Quarantine Inspection data base
Greetings list members, i just cannot accept
this;
> 23 kg of meat in a suitcase (suitcase
bomb...TSS)
> The data do not provide a species of origin
code for these
> products, therefore they may not contain any
ruminant product.
what kind of statement is this?
how stupid do they think we are?
it could also very well mean that _all_ of it was
ruminant based products !
Terry S. Singeltary Sr., Bacliff, Texas USA
What is the level of passenger traffic arriving
in the United States from Slovenia?
snip...full submission to fda in 2003 here
;
Docket No: 02-088-1 Agricultural Bioterrorism Protection Act of 2002;
Possession, Use, and Transfer of Biological Agents and Toxins
rollen them bones on the consumers backs...again $$$
tss
