All that concerns the so called mad cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) just repeats what we have seen till now. An intensive animal breeding, an infective agent capable to pass to man and bring about Creutzefeldt-Jakob (C J)’s disease which can cause the death of the affected subjects in about six months or one year; and also various suspicions and denials, economic interests thwarting the search after truth.
And again, nationalisms which set England against the neighbouring nations, governments which weren’t at their ease between public opinion that wanted to be informed and categories like the ones of the butchers threatening an economic crises in the country.
The novelties our study is concerned with are two. The first is that there are no limits in man to subvert the laws of nature; in fact it’s basic in the mad cow disease the transformation of a herbivore into a carnivore or better into a cannibal, since cattle suffering from the disease were fed on the wastes from the meat working like hides, fats, collagen, muscular parts, coming from individuals of the same species. The second novelty is prion, the infecting agent causing bovine spongiform encephalopathy and C.J.’s disease in man. Prion isn’t either a virus or a bacterium and has no nucleic acids. The pathologies caused by prions had been known for long time but till now, above all, the veterinary ones.
In man, besides C.J.’s disease that was caught because of organ transplants, or curu, always associated with prions,which was passed to some tribes of New Guinea through practises, now not in use, of ritual cannibalism, there weren’t any more cases of diseases which were linked to prions.
It’s very difficult for a prion to carry out the trans-species jump from animal to man, but the latter has done everything he could to make it possible and, recently , even largely. Besides the cow other “mad” animals emerge on the human epidemological scene.
The “mad squirrel” passes the same disease of the cow to the man who eats its brain [1].
The “mad hen” acts as a carrier of infection by means of a bacterium[2], but also in this case the pathogenicity is linked to intensive breedings[3].
As to “the mad man” it’s worth only considering the philosophical aspect, that is to point out how his claiming he can subvert the Laws of Nature without any consequences, is often a tragic illusion.
[1] In Kentucky, where the rodent is considered a delicious food.
[2] The campylobacter, the principal factor of poisoning caused by food in Great Britain, with about 60,000 cases recorded every year. On ten affected subjects one develops septicaemia and sometimes paralysis.
[3] Nine chickens out of ten sold in England, according to recent studies which were ordered by the English Ministery of Health, should be infected by the campylobacter.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
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