Tuesday 19th June 2012
The USA FDA (Food and Drug Administration) will now post a warning on human vaccines about the risk of vCJD transmission. The USA vaccines sourced from human albumen (blood donations) will have similar wording to those already used on blood bags/blood products in the USA. Though the FDA is playing down the risk as ‘remote’ this was the same wording used by the UK Department of Health during the BSE crisis here in the UK and since by government funded experts.
Two young men from Eastleigh near Southampton UK died of vCJD within weeks of each other both had been vaccinated from the same batch of polio vaccines. One of the young male victims was inoculated at school the other at a local college. Their families have been kept completely in the dark about the batch numbers and drug companies who produced these vaccines. The connection between the two young men’s deaths, their proximity to each other and the fact they had received vaccines from the same batch caused a press and public frenzy of concern. The UK Department of Health responded with Ray Bradley as their spokesperson who said ‘their was no connection between the two deaths’. This was the same Ray Bradley a scientist and head of the Central Vet Lab who kept secret the diagnosis of the first recorded case of BSE for nearly two years. See Bradley’s profile and expose on this website.
All victims who have died of vCJD received their childhood adolescent vaccinations; many did not eat school meals or commercially prepared baby food. The one common factor with all the victims were their exposure to vaccines sourced from BSE herds and produced using human material from blood donations.
With the FDA’s admission of this warning does this mean all recipients of vaccines will now be told about this ‘risk’ and choices they may have? Or is this wording on a very small vial of vaccine going to be missed by most patients about to receive their jabs?
When will this same warning be posted on vaccines here in the UK?
For more information about America’s FDA’s warning and information about vaccines check out this link:
www.vaccineriskawareness.com
Thursday 14th June 2012
Two newspaper articles below highlight how the truth was distorted and manipulated during the BSE scandal. The first feature which appeared in The Observer August 8th 1999 clearly states a case for growth hormones in cattle being one of the causes of transmitting BSE to herds and possibly one of the causes of the infection. The second article written in The Times also supports what many experts have told me that vaccines held a very real threat of transmitting the disease onwards to humans, and how this was downplayed by Margaret Thatcher, Kenneth Clarke and the Conservative government. .
Though these articles were written many years ago their investigations, research and arguments reveal a lot of factual and shocking information about how little the UK government during the 1980s and 1990s thought about the general public health and well being, preferring to keep the cash cows breeding, feeding and providing huge profits for business and shareholders. Meanwhile millions of UK children including my Andrew were inoculated using material from BSE infected herds, food from cows riddled with BSE was used to make commercially prepared baby food, school meals and to feed our armed forces and hospital patients. Many of the hierarchy in the current Conservative led government (2012) owe their luxurious lifestyles, promotions and huge mansions to their lies and corruption during and since the BSE scandal. The Department of Health at the behest of the government allowed the continue use of vaccines which the Prime Minister Thatcher and her minions knew could kill in the coming decades.
My Andrew had vaccines to prevent diphtheria, polio, tetanus, meningitis, and TB, all would have been sourced from the fetal serum from dying and diseased BSE infected cattle.
As one top scientist who worked closely with John Gummer and Kenneth Clarke during the BSE scandal told me in recorded interviews ‘ they knew the risks but still told the public there was no risk to eating BSE cattle our medicines were also sourced from the same herds, those ministers are culpable’.
Growth hormone blunder may have given Britain mad cow disease
Sunday, August 8, 1999 London Observer Service
LONDON -- Britain's ``mad cow'' disease epidemic was caused by a scientific experiment that went wrong, some experts believe. The blunder has cost Britain $6.4 billion, claimed the lives of 43 people and triggered fears that the death toll could eventually reach several million.
Experts believe that hormones, taken from the brains of slaughterhouse carcasses, were injected into cows in a bid to create a new breed of super-cattle. But the experiment -- carried out in the 1980s -- backfired. The hormones, extracted from pituitary glands, were transmitted in an agent that spread mad cow disease and eventually infected humans as new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD).
Twenty years ago, a similar use of human growth hormone, extracted from the pituitary glands of cadavers and given to children with congenital dwarfism, was shown to have spread CJD among humans.
``The theory is simple,'' said Dr. Anne Maddocks, a retired senior medical scientist who specialized in infection control at St. Mary's Hospital in London. ``The promiscuous use of pituitary hormones in cattle led to BSE in the same way that they led to CJD in humans. The timing of the deaths in cattle and humans who were exposed to pituitary hormones is very compelling.''
Maddocks has spent a year investigating the theory, which overturns previous ideas that blamed the epidemic on changes in the preparation of sheep carcasses infected with the brain disease scrapie, which were fed to cattle. Maddocks is backed by Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, an award-winning Cambridge University scientist on the government's mad cow disease inquiry team.
Evidence supplied separately by Joanna Wheatley, a former researcher and now an organic beef farmer, also supports the theory. Wheatley says abattoirs were selling pituitary glands to vets and researchers. Cows then got the disease through contaminated brain extract in their hormone injections. Infected cattle were ``recycled'' back into the national herd when carcasses were used in feed or bovine medicine.
The theory is also supported by David Brody, the lawyer acting for families of victims of the BSE-related nvCJD, who are suing the government. Brody also represents families of those who died from CJD after receiving growth hormone treatment. ``One has to take this theory very seriously indeed,'' he said. ``There is a striking resonance to the timing of events and the thinking behind them, and the similarities suggest that serious questions need to be answered.'' A spokesman for Ministry of Agriculture refused to be drawn: ``It is a theory being considered, but it is only a theory.''
Although the ban on British beef exports was lifted in Europe last week, specialists warn that nvCJD could still kill millions of people. Sir John Pattison, the chairman of the government's scientific advisory body on the disease, said it would take a decade to know the full impact of the crisis.
``We, as a population, are in deep trouble,'' he said. ``That is why the range of possible numbers of variant CJD still goes from something not very different from the numbers we have at the moment to six- or seven-figure numbers.'' His remarks led another panel member, David Pepper, to warn that the chance of such comments causing ``alarm and despondency and maybe even worse are quite high.''
In another sign that scientists are still in the dark over the disease, a new warning has been issued by John Collinge, another scientist advising the government, suggesting that people having their tonsils and appendix out are at risk of contracting nvCJD. This is because the disease has been found in these parts of the body and can be spread through surgical instruments, he warns.
Risk of BSE in vaccines revealed
August 8 1999 Jonathon Carr-Brown London Times
Four of Britain's most senior scientists downplayed the potential risk of the transmission of BSE to humans through vaccines to prevent a serious health scare. They insist that the secret warnings they gave to medical experts to make vaccines from materials that came from non-BSE-infected cattle were not fully implemented.
New evidence given to Lord Phillips's BSE inquiry reveals that the BSE working group, set up in 1989 by Margaret Thatcher and led by Sir Richard Southwood, be-lieved the risk of transfer through vaccines was "relatively high", not "remote" as its final report claimed.
The route by which BSE transfers to humans in the form of new-variant CJD is unknown. There is a possibility that one agent could be the thousands of vaccines used until 1993 that were made out of material likely to have come from infected cattle. The vaccines were used to treat diseases such as measles, rubella and tetanus.
In 1989 the Southwood report proved pivotal in the way other bodies overseeing medical products assessed the risk to the public. In particular, the Committee on Safety of Medicines cited the report when it decided not to destroy thousands of stockpiled vaccines made or cultured using bovine materials.
[Millions is more likely than thousands. These possibly tainted stocks continued to be used up until 1993 when they were gone from inventory. Children are of especial concern given that all are required to receive the shots and because of their long life expectancies. Britain could lose a whole generation from this -- why not simply purchase the vaccines from the US? -- webmaster]
In a twist during the BSE inquiry, Southwood, professor of zoology at Oxford University, and his former colleagues - Lord Walton, a leading clinical neurologist; Sir Anthony Epstein, a former head of the department of pathology at Bristol University; and Dr William Martin, a distinguished veterinarian - were recalled by Phillips to explain why their report "presented a misleading picture of the working party's views".
Southwood admitted his inquiry did not regard the risk as remote, but "relatively high". Asked if he thought the risk from vaccines was greater than the risk of being infected after eating beef, Southwood replied: "Yes."
Epstein defended the approach the Southwood inquiry took. "Those authorities were consulted in no uncertain terms," he said. "If they choose to disregard all of the warnings they received and hide behind the word 'remote' what can we do?"
Friday 8th June 2012 
The research paper below carried out by the Institute Pasteur in France is very concerning as it seems to highlight that BSE and vCJD and presenting symptoms have the ability to alter and mutate.
Thirteen out of twenty primates who were exposed to vCJD contaminated blood products developed a new neurological disease to monkeys which they have called MYELOPATHY. This medical term means severe damage/disease of the spinal cord which includes many distressing symptoms such as loss of balance, difficulty in walking eventually leading to paralysis/brain damage, with similarities to motor neuron disease in humans.
The symptoms experienced by the primates were also similar to those my Andrew suffered as he lay dying of vCJD. Significantly when the scientists from the Institute of Pasteur screened the sick monkeys with tests used to screen human victims for vCJD the tests all proved negative.
The scientists who conducted this research have stated:
‘Similar human infections, were they to occur, would not be identified as a prion disease by current diagnostic investigations’
So have similar infections already manifested themselves in humans including very young children? How many people have really died from the rogue prions that cause vCJD? How many cases of vCJD have been diagnosed with some other neurological disease?
Myelopathy has also been seen in a variety of ‘new neurological diseases’ in adult humans which consultants have been unable to identify or even give a defined diagnosis. From 1997 to 2004, some UK Pediatric Consultants were asked to monitor their young patients for signs of vCJD. From over a thousand children suffering from PIND ‘progressive intellectual and neurological deterioration’ 92 of those children died who were never officially categorised by any medical expert from the UK department of health. The onset of their illness and progression was never given any diagnosis.
These young children’s distressing symptoms mirrored the final stages of the human form of BSE.
Has the original disease of vCJD mutated into other strains in some individuals?
How many children have really died and been affected by the human form of BSE?
There are now several strains of BSE in cattle as the disease appears to have mutated over the years.
Millions of us in the UK were exposed to BSE which means in the next decades all sorts of strains of vCJD could manifest itself within the population.
Have the unprecented cases of dementia and other neurological diseases been a smoke screen for vCJD?
When a person becomes infected with vCJD the rogue prions that cause the disease travel up the spinal cord to the brain, suffocating and replicating until all normal brain cells are killed. It would appear inoculating these primates with vCJD contaminated blood products has shown the disease has changed into another strain of disease but was directly caused by the human form of BSE.
I am in contact with many people who suffer the most terrible symptoms unable to walk, talk, move about, work or have any semblance of normal life.
Many of these very poorly individuals have been in close contact with people who have died of vCJD and are convinced they are suffering from some sort of strain of the human form of BSE.
Despite rigorous testing for every disease their consultants have drawn a blank, and these patients continue to suffer a variety of distressing symptoms bed ridden or needing wheelchairs, they are unable to work ever again. . Are we already seeing the beginning of another wave of victims of vCJD? This would include children and older people who have been infected with different strains of the disease whose symptoms present in a different pattern like the primates in the experiments? Is this something the UK Department of Health have been aware of for some time and that’s why they decided to re-brand vCJD and all forms of CJD under the term ‘prion disease’?
A new neurological disease in primates inoculated with prion-infected blood or blood components
Emmanuel Comoy,1 Nina Jaffré,1 Jacqueline Mikol,1 Valérie Durand,1 Christelle Jas-Duval,2 Sophie Luccantoni-Freire,1 Evelyne Correia,1 Vincent Lebon,1 Justine Cheval,3 Isabelle Quadrio,4 Nathalie Lescoutra-Etchegaray,5 Nathalie Streichenberger,4 Stéphane Haïk,6 Chryslain Sumian,5 Armand Perret-Liaudet,4 Marc Eloit,7 Philippe Hantraye,1 Paul Brown,1 Jean-Philippe Deslys1 1Atomic Energy Commission ; Fontenay-aux-Roses, France ; 2Etablissement Français du Sang; Lille, France; 3Pathoquest; Paris, France; 4Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France; 5MacoPharma; Tourcoing, France; 6INSER M; Paris, France; 7Institut Pasteur; Paris, France.
Background. Concerns about the blood-borne risk of prion infection have been confirmed by the occurrence in the UK of four transfusion-related infections of vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease), and an apparently silent infection in an hemophiliac patient. Asymptomatic incubation periods in prion diseases can extend over decades in humans, and a typical disease may or may not supervene. We present here unexpected results of independent experiments to evaluate blood transmission risk in a validated non-human primate model of prion disease.
Methods. Cynomolgus macaques were inoculated with brain or blood specimens from vCJD infected humans and vCJD or BSE-infected monkeys. Neuropathological and biochemical findings were obtained using current methods used for human patients.
Findings. Thirteen out of 20 primates exposed to human or macaque blood-derived components or potentially contaminated human plasma-derived Factor VIII exhibited an original neurological disease (myelopathy) previously not described either in humans or primates, and which is devoid of the classical clinical and lesional features of prion disease (front leg paresis in the absence of central involvement, lesions concentrated in anterior horns of lower cervical cord, with no spongiosis or inflammation), while the 12 brain-inoculated donor animals and one transfused animal exhibited the classical vCJD pattern. No abnormal prion protein (PrPres) was detected by standard tests in use for human prion diagnosis, but higher amounts of protease-sensitive PrP were detected in cervical cords than in controls. No alternative cause has been found in an exhaustive search for metabolic, endocrine, toxic, nutritional, vascular and infectious etiologies, including a search for pathogen genotypes (‘deep sequencing’). Moreover, all the three animals transfused with blood treated with a prion removal filter remain asymptomatic with a one-third longer incubation period than the two animals transfused before filtration, which both developed the atypical syndrome presented here.
Interpretation. We describe a new neurological syndrome in monkeys exposed to various prion-infected inocula, including a potentially infected batch of plasma-derived Factor VIII. Our experimental observations in the absence of evident alternative etiology is highly suggestive of a prion origin for this myelopathy, that might be compared under some aspects to certain forms of human lower motor neuron diseases. Similar human infections, were they to occur, would not be identified as a prion disease by current diagnostic investigations.
http://www.landesbioscience.com/journals/prion/01-Prion6-2-OralPresentations.pdf
Sunday 3rd June 2012
Here is a photo of a young guy in his twenties called Bradley who walked from London to Brighton over the weekend of May 19th raising money for charity.
Bradley a brain tumour sufferer who is now in remission has also been exposed to CJD via contaminated surgical instruments. Despite all of these challenges Bradley remains upbeat and determined to live life to the full.
With Bradley’s permission I have included him on my blog as he represents many thousands of people across the world exposed to CJD due to contaminated blood, cells, medicines or surgical equipment. Bradley is just one of over 30 people at a UK hospital who were all exposed to CJD after having operations in the same hospital theatre.
Bradley and all ‘living victims’ would not have been exposed to the deadly disease if the UK government had not dragged its feet, blocked and delayed blood screening tests.
All blood donors and patients should be automatically screened for CJD, we have the technology but cronies in Westminster continue to safe-guard the backs of those responsible for BSE, meanwhile putting more and more UK citizens and our global community at risk.
Well done Bradley for completing your charity walk and for smiling despite your difficulties, we all wish you a long and happy life.
Wednesday 30th May 2012 
I have had to write this blog to inform you about the UK Government’s weak efforts to undermine my investigations and campaign. I have been both very sad and angry at the attempts by the Conservative led government, its ministers and officials who are attempting to destroy my credibility and have been manipulating the true facts regarding vCJD victims and the ongoing threat that the human form of BSE poses for us all. The disease is still here and continues to maim, disable and destroy lives in 2012; many millions of us over 14 have been exposed to BSE the same lethal pathogen that killed my boy Andrew.
As my supporters and members of the public know I am not influenced by politics, finance, corporate or professional agendas. I have taken no monies for any of the documentaries I helped produced researched. My goals remain honest, open, constant and steadfast to expose those responsible for the unlawful deaths of my beloved son Andrew and hundreds of other victims of vCJD and to make sure all donated blood is screened for vCJD. I cannot be bought, silenced or intimidated. This site like all of my research is factual, true life experiences not influenced by the UK government, outside organisations,
Individual or collective pressure. I tell the truth about the BSE/vCJD scandal and remain transparent as possible regarding my efforts to get justice.
Individuals and their families continue to be affected by vCJD this is the ongoing legacy of BSE. Despite a recent inaccurate report in the media and untrue rhetoric spouted by experts funded by the UK Department of Health I continue to meet with, interview and support ‘living victims’ and their families affected by the human form of mad cow’s disease, in 2012. Since the Conservative led governments tenure began in 2010 they have tried repeatedly to dismiss vCJD as a disease of the past of little significance to the UK population. This dis respectful behaviour has broken the hearts of many of the families and living victims I continue to support. David Cameron’s PR team are spinning lies and half truths about the deadly brain wasting disease which will remain a ticking health time-bomb for millions in the UK and global population for decades. Using cherry picked ‘experts’ or weak and easily swayed members of the media they are manufacturing more lies and half truths about the human form of BSE. It has not gone away millions of us since the 1980s have eaten at least 50 BSE infected meals including strict veggies. Vaccines sanctioned by the department of health during the 1980s and 1990s were sourced from BSE infected herds, Kenneth Clarke Minister of Justice and right hand man of David Cameron was health minister through this period of scandal and shame.
How these members of the cabinet, Westminster and paid lackeys can go home and sleep well at night remains to be seen as they continue the culture of secrecy and half truths that unlawfully killed my only son Andrew.
The UK government is waging a war against honesty and the truth trying to conceal all aspects of BSE and its lethal human pathogen vCJD and this includes past, present victims. Total falsehoods, peddled by minions are only too happy to tell lies to further their careers or support Conservative policy. In autumn 2011 three people died of vCJD within ten days of each other. One of the victims a middle aged woman was infected with the human form of mad cow’s disease via a blood transfusion.
Millions of us exposed to BSE means thousands could be carrying, incubating the disease. No scientist or government official can truly say the disease will go away in any of our lifetimes. The disease has been known to kill people forty years after they ate infected material. With donated blood not screened for vCJD we also face secondary infections via blood transfusions/products and hospital procedures.
David Cameron’s party spearheaded by Kenneth Clarke are desperately trying to bury all mention of vCJD, BSE and its victims. The Conservative party are distancing themselves in every way possible from the stink of ‘BSE’ and their role in the deaths of so many innocent members of the UK public. With recent vCJD deaths in Asia and Turkey the blood of so many more within our global community are also on their hands.
False accounting of the true numbers of people who have died of the disease means the true numbers of individuals killed, disabled and affected by the human form of BSE may never be known. However with my investigative skills I am trying to establish as many victims and their stories as possible on a data base held in several safe places. These evidence based experiences and documented proof will form part of the process which will bring those responsible to justice.
I have filmed families who have told me that officials from the UK Department of Health visited them and said‘ Though your child has died of vCJD they wont appear on any official government statistics as they don’t fit the criteria’ Other grieving mums and dads have been told ‘ don’t speak to the press and don’t tell your neighbours your loved one had vCJD’ Intimidation and making the families feel isolated and ashamed is another tactic used to conceal the true numbers of people who have died of vCJD.
Every day I receive texts, phone calls, letters, emails from people affected by the disease these are ongoing ‘living victims’.
John and his brother Peter Gummer bank rolled Prime Minister David Cameron into office and Peter Gummer owns a huge PR and lobbying company Huntsworth PLC (integrated health care communications). Huge public relations organisations supportive of the Conservatives are working overtime to help hide, conceal or wipe out anything connected with BSE/vCJD and its ongoing victims. John Gummer as we know was the Agriculture Minister during BSE and John Gummer’s deliberate and ongoing decisions made sure that BSE infected brains and spinal cords continued to feed our children and families. In May 1990 John Gummer was continuing the lie still telling the public and media that ‘British beef is safe to eat’ despite his scientists telling him that BSE was lethal to humans.
In 2011 David Cameron bought a plot of land from Peter Gummer (Lord Chadlington) for £140,000 and all their families meet regularly at social, private and professional occasions.
Re branding of vCJD to prion disease is just one of the UK Governments PR and spin doctors initiatives. Yet another ruse used to remove the Conservative party and UK Department of Health away from the scandal of BSE. The term Prion Disease will have little relevance to the ordinary man or woman in the street and many would not connect it with the staggering cows of BSE which were slaughtered to make burgers and pies to feed our children as they sat down to school dinners. The same material used to make commercially prepared baby food, the same infected herds to make vaccines.
One family recently nursing their dying mother were warned by government medics that:
‘We don’t call it cjd anymore it’s called prion disease as that is less negative’
This blog is also posted as a warning to all those in Whitehall who continue to lie and try and block my steps towards the truth, to let you know that the bell tolls for you all and that one day soon you will be facing a court of law and will be made accountable for so many unlawful deaths, corruption and ongoing wrong doing.
INJUSTICE ANYWHERE IS A THREAT TO JUSTICE EVERYWHERE
Martin Luther King
Monday 28th May 2012
Once again another agriculture minister is putting government policy, shareholders profits and the huge money making machinery that is beef and livestock before a population’s health and safety. Below see this article from Care2 reporter Cathryn Wellner who reports that Canada’s British Columbia’s Minister is proposing to change the Animal Health Act which will ensure anyone is punished who leaks news of a disease outbreak on a farm with heavy fines and jail sentences. This means any journalist or member of the public that speaks out about diseased animals including BSE would be silenced and imprisoned. George Orwell depiction of big brother in his book 1984 is alive and well in the 21st century.
Read more:
http://www.care2.com/causes/bc-law-could-hide-animal-disease-outbreaks.html#ixzz1w3zERyXL
BC Law Could Hide Animal Disease Outbreaks
by Cathryn Wellner
May 25, 2012
British Columbia’s Ministry of Agriculture says its proposed changes to the Animal Health Act “will ensure B.C.’s reputation as a producer of safe and healthy foods and animals.” It will also punish anyone who leaks news of a disease outbreak on a farm with fines up to $75,000 and a possible two-year prison sentence.
That language is buried in the first major re-write of the Animal Health Act since 1948. For the most part, the act is a detailed strategy for dealing with animal disease. When outbreaks affect companies such as Tyson and Cargill, they are major safety concerns for consumers.
So updating the Animal Health Act to ensure all disease outbreaks are accurately and quickly reported and dealt with is a responsible thing to do. Most of the revised act addresses safety concerns.
What has set alarm bells ringing are provisions giving government complete control over what information is released and applying stiff penalties for any leaks. The wording of Part 3 of the act means journalists cannot even access details through the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, (FOI) the usual avenue for accessing information
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/bc-law-could-hide-animal-disease-outbreaks.html#ixzz1w3zERyXL
Friday 27th May 2012 
Here are just some of the photographs taken during the vCJD, sCJD, g CJD, Iatrogenic CJD memorial/protest that took place in central London on May 17th. I like to thank the families, friends and members of the public that supported this event, including the living victims of vCJD who attended despite their health difficulties.
I also like to thank Frank Dobson Labour MP for his support and the words he spoke before the 2 minutes silence for all those lost to the horrific brain wasting disease made, manufactured and exported by the UK.
The former health secretary Frank Dobson talked passionately about his support for individual blood screening for all donors and the Labour party support of families affected by the disease.
As I stated during the ceremony ‘we will continue to fight for justice, transparency for our loved ones and to push for blood screening of all donations for vCJD.’
The fight continues and is gaining ground in all areas, and I would like to thank everyone for their ongoing support, information and documentation that continues to build our dossier of evidence and facts.
Tuesday 22nd May 2012
The press association in the UK are continuing to attack the far reaching powers of the Justice and Security Bill which is to be published this Thursday 24th April 2012.
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Article in The Telegraph stated:
The Justice Secretary will push ahead with proposals to allow some civil claims concerning the security and intelligence services to be held behind closed doors. But in one concession he will announce a judge will have the final say on such hearings rather than a minister. The bill, to be published on Thursday, will also restrict the power to “national security cases” rather than a previous proposal to allow any case that is in the “public interest”. However, it remains uncertain whether Mr Clarke will exclude inquests from being subject to the secret hearings. The Justice Secretary admitted some of the previous proposals had been “rather loose” and could have meant “putting a lot of things in secret"."
Below is one of many letters I have sent to various advocates, members of the legal profession and human rights committees expressing my concern over the Justice and Security green paper, which if fully implemented will have catastrophic consequences for every man, woman and child in the UK. Our right to a fair, just and open trial in court will be no more.
Ms Christine Lord
Southsea
5th March 2012
www.justice4andy.com
Mschristinelord@aol.com
07828230158
Dear Lord Ken MacDonald,
I have been following with interest and growing alarm the plans for the Justice and Security Green Paper which would mean court cases deemed ‘sensitive’ by Government would be held in secret. I thoroughly support your views that these plans spear-headed by Kenneth Clarke will scupper British justice, the right to a fair hearing and our constitutional right to have court cases heard in public for scrutiny by the population and media. The core of the Green Paper is ‘unlawful and unconstitutional’ and would destroy our legal system.
My name is Christine Lord and I lost my son Andrew Black aged 24 on 16th December 2007 to vCJD (the human form of BSE) my son was unlawfully killed by a culture of secrecy and corruption. In the near future I am confident of a court case which will bring those I hold responsible accountable for my boy’s untimely death.
The Green Paper proposals would mean inquests; court cases and many other areas of the judiciary could be held in camera at the incumbent governments request. This smacks of the same ‘Whitehall cover-ups ‘that killed my only son. Hundreds of families affected by vCJD, thousands living with an ‘at risk status’ of vCJD and the millions of us exposed to BSE would never find out the truth or answers if this green paper eventually becomes law.
When my Andrew was dying he asked me ‘Find out who did this to me mum and expose them’ and always thinking of others ‘this must never happen again.’ The promises I made my dying boy has meant me going on a life long mission for the truth and justice. With the development of a blood screening test for vCJD it means very soon we will know the prevalence of vCJD in the population and also be able to trace back the exact source of the infection. The blood test will also make donated blood and operations safe and free of vCJD. This test developed by British Scientists is essential to save lives and prevent future deaths; it will also reveal many of the secrets and realities about the disease and its origins. With these revelations will come legal action and many traumatised families and victims will finally have their say and day in court. None of us want that day to be silenced due to a green paper implemented by Kenneth Clarke who was Health Secretary during BSE who allowed infectious bovine material into baby food, school meals and vaccines when he knew the consequences to animals and man.
If this green paper comes to fruition it would mean the very officials who created, condoned and allowed BSE into the human food and medicine chain would have the power to censor, veto and silence any court cases within the public arena. So myself and other parents deeply bereaved would never have the transparent resolution we need and daily seek.
Surely there is a conflict of interests if as Justice Minister Kenneth Clarke is trying to bring about a law that will have the ability to silence and stop any future inquiry, inquest, legal investigation into vCJD taking place in the public domain. If this green paper becomes law my son Andrew will never have justice and I will never know the truth. The public will also never know just how many people have and will die of vCJD this will all be kept behind closed doors, not for the benefit of the population but for the benefit of those who are to blame for so many innocent deaths.
I am writing to you to offer my help in any way I can as representative of hundreds of families and thousands of people who have and are affected by vCJD and also on behalf of the millions of us over 14 years old that have been exposed to the same lethal pathogen BSE which killed my Andrew.
This green paper is a tool to be used by government ministers and officials to hide their wrong doings if it becomes law, justice in the UK will have finally died.
Yours sincerely,
Christine Lord
Enc.
PS enclosed is one of three documentaries I have made about my son’s decline, death and the aftermath of living with vCJD. The DVD is the documentary which was commissioned by BBC1. This short film gives just a glimpse of the horror of the illness a UK man made manufactured and totally avoidable disease.
Thursday 17th May 2012
PRESS RELEASE:
Thursday May 17th 2012
Central London from 1230
Meet at Slug and Lettuce Pub: 5 Chichelley Street, SE1 7PJ, before the short walk to embankment. Service to take place next to the Human BSE plaque.
Families and children who have lost loved ones to human form of mad cows disease will be protesting at a memorial service for those that have died.
Grieving families and live victims of the fatal brain wasting disease vCJD caused through eating infected school dinners, baby food, vaccines or contaminated blood, will be gathering on the embankment in central London from 1245. Campaigners and parents are demanding that David Cameron and his government support individual blood screening tests for UK blood donors so that the disease does not cause hundreds maybe thousands more to needlessly die.of the human form of BSE.
The multi faith event will be attended by MPs. Former Health Secretary Frank Dobson supports the campaigners he said ‘The latest research from the Health Protection Agency warns that up to 60,000 UK residents could be silently carrying vCJD, never become ill themselves but have the ability to transmit the disease through blood donation we need to know the numbers of people in the UK population who may be harbouring this deadly disease’.
Christine Lord organiser from Portsmouth lost her only son Andrew Black to vCJD aged 24 said:
‘We have the technology and its relatively cheap, the UK department of health have already spent over £450 million plus trying to filter blood but it hasn’t worked as a victim died October last year of vCJD due to a contaminated blood transfusion she received for a back operation. A British scientist has developed a test and several other foreign tests are in development but the UK Department of Health need to validated any test, the same organisation that helped o spread BSE during the 1980s and 1990s’ she continued ‘I fear the current Conservative led government will never want a test for vCJD as it would highlight the wrongdoings of the Tories who created and allowed BSE infectious material into the food and medicine chain in the 1980s and 1990s. ‘ She concluded ‘ VCJD has not gone away and we, one blood donor has the ability to infected hundreds of people.’
The memorial/protest will be attended by ‘ living victims ‘of the human form of mad cows disease, who are now ‘at risk’ of developing the horrific brain wasting disease through injectibles, medicines, blood products or medical procedures. Andrew March 38 from Kensington, London has received over 110 vials of factor 8 blood products which were infected with vCJD. He said ‘ I have to inject myself for my haemophilia and my medicine was sourced from blood donors that went on to die of vCJD.He added ‘ There are hundreds and hundreds of people like myself worrying that any time we could succumb to the human form of BSE, Individual blood screening tests for all blood donors and those like myself who are considered ‘at risk of vCJD’ should be the Department of Health’s priority.’ 
Tommy Goodwin from Glasgow lost his only son Grant aged 30 in 2009 to vCJD he said ‘Despite my son being recognised as a victim by world experts, lancet papers, and his blood being used for research. I have been told by Ministers at the Scottish and English parliament, that my Grant will never appear on any official records, he has been unlawfully killed and now his very existence wiped out. Just how many people have really died and are dying of vCJD? The cover-ups continue.’ (photo of Grant Goodwin)
Rose Smith, from Eltham, London, son Billy, died of vCJD aged 21 in January 2010. She said: “I stopped feeding Billy beef because of BSE but when John Gummer came on TV and said it was safe I believed him and started feeding beef to my family again. My boy was just a year old, all my Billy did was eat his Sunday dinner and now he is dead …” (photo of Rose with son Billy dying of vcjd)
Mum of two Judith Hajdaraj (40) from Brighton, is marching with her infant son Billy (4). She received blood transfusion at Royal Sussex Hospital in 2008, she said: “I was never warned that the blood I received could give me vCJD or that UK blood bags/ components have the disclaimer: ‘RISK OF ADVERSE REACTION INFECTION INCLUDING VCJD’ since July 2007. Why wasn’t I told this? And why doesn’t the British public know what’s going on? Why isn’t our blood screened for vCJD’.
Friday 11th May 2012
http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9691038._Mad_cow_disease__killed_man_of_39/?ref=erec
The above link is from the Brighton Argos Newspaper (UK) reporting on the untimely and tragic death of a man aged 39 due to growth hormones contaminated with CJD.
The article is titled ‘ MAD COWS DISEASE KILLED MAN OF 39’ 
By Anna Roberts.
‘Daniel Sands 39 who lived with his wife Julie and his son Andrew went from a gregarious man to someone who could not even feed himself. His wife Julie spoke out about her husbands death as she wanted people to be aware the illness, still existed and could be contracted in ways other than a ‘dodgy burger’.
Daniel became ill in August 2010 and died in March 2011, he knew he could contract the killer disease as he had received contaminated growth hormones when he was a youngster. He was told by the UK Department of Health officials that the risk was so ‘ minimal it wouldn’t affect him’.
Growth Hormone treatment was given to young people in the 1970s and 1980s which had been sourced from human corpses who had died of CJD. This was given to young people with restricted growth and was fan fared as a 'wonder drug' with little or no side effects.
The practice of making growth hormone medication was developed in UK Labs Cambridge where the pituitary glands from cadavers were harvested to make growth hormones that were then used across the UK and exported. This medication made huge profits for the pharmaceutical companies the same ones that were also producing childhood vaccines during the 1980s and 1990s. In labs at the same location drug companies were developing growth hormones for cattle as well as experimenting with TSE’s (BSE).
The terrible decline and avoidable death of father of two Daniel Sands from Battle in St Leonards West Sussex UK is the story of yet another innocent person’s life destroyed by government greed and lies. Another family who have been left devastated by the lies and wrongdoings of government ministers and the UK department of health.
The newspaper article has used USA Government official records to quote ‘ 26 people have THOUGHT to have died of cjd via growth out of 8,000 people treated with the medication’ Note the use of the word ‘THOUGHT’ a get out clause for the USA Department of Health when the true numbers are much higher. Many more people have died of cjd due to growth hormone injectibles, in much the same way as the true numbers of vCJD victims here in the UK and abroad are being distorted or hidden. These families and victims have talked to me at length about their experiences. 
I am in contact with many families who have lost dearly loved brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, mothers, fathers to cjd via growth hormone injectibles. One family told me that their son Wayne who also died recently ‘ had his last growth hormone injection when he was 17 and his death at 43 meant incubation periods could be decades’. Wayne was MV genotype which were believed to have some protection over the disease, once again false reassurances from the UK Department of Health.
Across Europe many more people have died of cjd due to growth hormone treatments, this is another group of victims whose deaths were caused by the same corrupt people and lies that killed my only son Andrew. Kenneth Clarke the UK ‘s current justice minister was Health Secretary during BSE and he knowingly allowed contaminated blood, blood products, vaccines and injectibles to medicate our children and families. Kenneth Clarke deliberately risked the population’s lives and well being as he put his career and shareholders profits before human health.
Yet Kenneth Clarke continues to make a fortune in cash from his corrupt dealings, and is in charge of our justice system and the jails throughout the UK. When in fact he should be incarcerated within one, for the numbers of people he has unlawfully killed, disabled and maimed.
My thoughts and prayers are with Julie, Andrew and Stacey Sands and all of Daniels family and friends, and to let them know the fight continues for the truth and justice.
Wednesday 9th May 2012
Scientists based at Leicester University UK are a step closer to ‘switching off’’ brain mutations that cause vCJD and other neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons. Team Leader Professor Giovanna Mallucci research said the ‘breakthrough was very exciting’.
‘Her team found the build up of mis folded proteins in the brains of mice activated a natural defence mechanism in cells which switches of the production of these rogue proteins. This would then normally switch back ‘on’ again but the continued build up of misshapen protein keeps the switched turned ‘off’. It is this process which triggers brain cell death as key proteins essential for nerve cell survival are not made. By injecting a protein that blocks this ‘off switch’ the scientists were able to restore protein production independently of the build up of mis- shapen proteins and halt degeneration of the brain’.
Sunday Express UK May 6th 2012 page 9 By Jo Willey Health Correspondent.
When I read the above article I was both elated and sad, that these significant findings were not around when my Andrew was younger. Having nursed my Andrew through months of torment as he succumbed to vCJD, I am hopeful that these developments will unravel the mysteries of the disease and explain why some people develop vCJD, others incubate and many may carry the disease. As Andrew’s mum I need to know where he became infected, when and the exact source of the infection. These findings by the researchers at Leicester University will pave the way for these questions to be answered.
Hopefully these amazing results will mean in the future individuals can be treated for vCJD and the devastating brain death caused by the human form of BSE will be eradicated. With these developments will come treatments for a range of neurological diseases.
However this is just the beginning of a long haul for the scientists at Leicester University but it gives hope to us all. This development also highlights how close Alzheimers is to vCJD and how the dramatic increase in cases of sporadic CJD and dementia may be closely linked to exposure of BSE material during the 1980s and 1990s.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/318539/Found-The-switch-that-could-stop-Alzheimer-s-Found-The-switch-that-could-stop-Alzheimer-s
Team Leader Professor Giovanna Malllucci
MRC Toxicology Unit
Hodgkin Building
PO Box 138
University of Leicester
Lancaster Road, Leicester
LE1 9HN, UK
Tel: +44 (0)116 252 5550 (/5597 lab)
Email:
grm7@le.ac.uk
Friday 4th May 2012
Below is a letter from concerned scientists to the US Secretary of Agriculture regarding the latest BSE cow found in California. This latest case raises many issues not least how much BSE infected material has gone into the USA human food and medicine chain? The Californian cows with BSE was picked up before slaughter but infected cows can also be symptom free, harbouring or incubating the fatal brain wasting disease and still have the ability transmit the disease via its meat to humans.
As a resident of the UK who lost their only son Andrew Black to vCJD aged 24 in 2007, I believe that the cow discovered with BSE most recently in the USA is just the tip of the iceberg. What about that cow’s offspring, parents, siblings as well as the rest of the herd it came from? Have they been tested? Have they been destroyed or have they ended up being slaughtered for food?
How safe is that national staple and iconic American food the burger? Are US burgers made with beef from BSE infected cows?
(photo of Billy Smith with his mum Rose dying of vCJD, Billy ran a burger van, cooked and prepared hundreds of burgers)
The rogue prions that cause BSE in cattle and vCJD in humans adhere to metal and cannot be destroyed by usual sterlisation or heat. All the instruments equipment used on that cow would be infectious and would pass BSE onto other animals being prepared for slaughter. How many BSE infected cows have really entered the USA human food chain? With incubation periods of upwards of forty years on humans, I fear the rising numbers of cases of cjd and dementia in the USA and UK may well be due to exposure to BSE infected food and medicine products.
Also it wouldn’t be for decades that the true cases of people affected by the disease would become obvious. Whether these would ever be made public is another matter.
Here in the UK the government put the agriculture, beef and pharmaceutical industries and their money making potential before my son’s life. The UK Conservative Government adopted a ‘Wait and see’ attitude not because it was the safest option but due to the huge political and financial influence those three organizations wield. The same is true in the USA whose beef lobby have a great deal of power within the senate.
(photo of Kate Richer victim of vcjd aged 9 during a family holiday on a farm, who died of vCJD at just 22 years old).
Scientist’s Michael Hansen, PhD. Jean Halloran urge the USA government to take stringent steps as it’s likely the cow that developed BSE became infected via animal feed. This is exactly the same scenario which top experts here in the UK believed created and caused the UK BSE epidemic and its terrible consequences to humans who have died and continue to die of vCJD. The companies that provide this feed should be named, shamed and shut down as the metal equipment they use to produce the feed will also be infected with rogue prions that cause BSE and the disease could then be re- cycled again and again into the animal feed.
BSE MAD COW LETTERS TO USDA (Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture) and FDA (Magaret Hamburg, Commissioner of FDA) May 1, 2012
CONSUMERS UNION
BSE MAD COW LETTERS TO USDA (Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture) and FDA (Magaret Hamburg, Commissioner of FDA) May 1, 2012
May 1, 2012
Honorable Tom Vilsack, Secretary U.S. Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Ave., SW Washington, DC 20250
Dear Secretary Vilsack:
USDA’s announcement last week that a fourth case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has been identified in the United States, in a dairy cow in Central California, is a warning flag that current safeguards against BSE are not adequate and USDA should take additional steps to protect the health of animals and of the beef-eating public.
Consumers Union, the policy and advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, is concerned that if additional steps are not taken now, this deadly disease could circulate and amplify within US cattle. USDA should conduct a full and complete investigation of this case, expand its surveillance program, and allow private companies to test as well. USDA should conduct a full and complete investigation of this new BSE case. USDA has confirmed to reporters that this case is an “L-type” atypical strain of BSE.1 USDA therefore must be especially vigilant, because this may well not be a “spontaneous” case, but rather may well have been infected through feed, and may be particularly infectious in humans.
The L-type BSE strain has previously been identified in cattle in Europe2 and in Canada.3 This would suggest that the current case may have been contracted through feed, rather than be a new spontaneous occurrence.
Studies further suggest that the L-type BSE can infect humans, possibly even more easily than “classical” BSE. A study using humanized mice (mice genetically engineered to
have brain prions like humans) suggested that L-type BSE could infect humans.4 Another study showed oral transmission to a primate.5 The mouse study also found shorter incubation periods than for classical BSE, making it a more “virulent” strain.6 The fact that L-type BSE has been found before in cattle makes it extremely important that USDA conduct a thorough and complete investigation of this case. Not just all offspring, but all cows that consumed the same feed as this cow, should be tested for BSE.
USDA should significantly increase its surveillance for BSE.
Given the very small size of the current USDA surveillance program, it cannot be said with certainty whether this new case is an isolated one, or whether it is indicative of a much larger problem.
USDA tests approximately 40,000 dead or slaughtered cattle annually for BSE, only about .1 percent of the 35 million cattle slaughtered annually in the United States. This is far too small a sample to provide the nation with the assurance that our food supply is safe. In Europe and Japan, every animal over a certain age is tested at slaughter. In the U.S., having recently found one case of BSE in a program of just 40,000 tests annually, consumers need to know what the results would be from a larger test program in order to maintain their confidence in the U.S. beef supply.
Ideally USDA should test all cattle at slaughter over the age of 20 months for several years. At a minimum, USDA should test at least 350,000 annually, for at least three years, including all cows showing nervous system abnormalities, downers, and a random selection of cattle slaughtered at more than 30 months of age and cows sent to the renderers.
USDA should end its prohibition on private sector testing for BSE.
To augment USDA testing, and to assure meat producers’ access to foreign markets, USDA should reverse its counterproductive policy of prohibiting private companies from testing for BSE at their own expense. In the past, a private company sought permission to test animals for BSE at their own facility, using the same test that USDA employs to detect BSE, in order to be able to export beef to Japan, which requires testing of all animals over 20 months at slaughter. However, USDA has prohibited sale of test kits for this purpose. In an era of limited governmental resources, when public-private partnerships are essential to assure safety, we urge USDA to reconsider this highly counterproductive and anti-competitive policy.
USDA has argued that the rapid tests are “worthless” when used for a food safety purpose because their use could result in a false negative.7 While we agree the rapid test kits can miss a case of BSE in the early stages of incubation, such test kits can catch the disease in later stages, before the animals show symptoms.8 They are used to test animals at slaughter in Europe and Japan and have identified more than 1,000 otherwise undetected cases in Europe.9 We urge USDA to allow private testing, with the caveat that any findings of a BSE positive animal would have to be immediately reported to the USDA. Although tested beef should not be labeled “BSE-free,” testing could in fact be incentivized by allowing companies who use such tests to label their products as "BSEtested." We would appreciate having an opportunity to discuss these recommendations with you and your staff. Thank you for your consideration.
1 Thompson, H. 2012. California BSE prion comes with a different twist. Nature News Blog, April 27. At:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2012/04/california-bse-prion-comes-with-a-different-twist.html
2 Brown, P, McShane, LM, Zancusso, G and L Detwiler. 2006. On the question of sporadic or atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 12(12): 1816-1821. At: http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/12/pdfs/06-0965.pdf
3 Dudas, S et al. 2010. Molecular, Biochemical and Genetic Characteristics of BSE in Canada. PLOS One, At: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0010638
4 Kong, Q, et al. 2008. Evaluation of the human transmission risk of an atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy prion strain. Journal of Virology, pp. 3697-3701.
5 Mestre-Frances N et al. 2012. Oral transmission of L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy in primate model. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 18(1): 142-145.
6 Kong et al. Op cit.
Sincerely,
Michael Hansen, PhD. Jean Halloran
Senior Scientist
http://www.consumersunion.org/pdf/BSE_Vilsack_5_2012.pdf
Friday 27th April 2012
Below is information released by the USDA regarding another case of BSE in US cattle found at a rendering facility in California. These rendering plants produce the equivalent of MRM mechanically recovered meat which is then used for free school meals and to supply food for cheap burgers and patties.
What is very strange is just a few weeks ago three people were diagnosed with CJD in the same part of Amercia. Initial media reports stated the victims all from the California area had succumbed to the ‘human form of mad cows disease’ but this was then down graded by the US health authorities as being the sporadic kind of disease. As I have questioned many times, why are there clusters of cases of cjd in the same areas that cattle are also found suffering from BSE?
AND Why are cases of sporadic or classic forms of CJD rocketing in direct correlation with incubation periods of the BSE infectious material appearing in the animal and human food chain? These questions and many more should be addressed!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
MAD COW DISEASE USA 4TH CASE DOCUMENTED ATYPICAL BSE CALIFORNIA
BSE found in central California, USDA confirms
Greg Henderson, Editor, Associate Publisher, Drovers CattleNetwork | Updated: April 24, 2012
America’s fourth case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) was confirmed today in a press briefing by the USDA. John Clifford, USDA’s chief veterinarian, said a dairy cow expressing an "atypical" case of BSE was found at a rendering facility in central California and the carcass is being held under State authority and will be destroyed.
Clifford said the animal was never presented for slaughter for human consumption and was never a risk to enter the food supply for human consumption. Additionally, it was noted, milk does not transmit BSE. This is the first case of BSE found in the United States since December 2003.
Cattle futures markets locked limit down shortly before trading ended Tuesday as rumors of the BSE case circulated through the trading floor.
Clifford emphasized the safeguards in place to protect America’s food supply from BSE. "The United States has had longstanding interlocking safeguards to protect human and animal health against BSE. For public health, these measures include the USDA ban on specified risk materials, or SRMs, from the food supply. SRMs are parts of the animal that are most likely to contain the BSE agent if it is present in an animal. USDA also bans all nonambulatory (sometimes called "downer") cattle from entering the human food chain. For animal health, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ban on ruminant material in cattle feed prevents the spread of the disease in the cattle herd.
Clifford said the U.S. will share laboratory results with international animal health reference laboratories in Canada and England, which have official World Animal Health (OIE) reference labs. “These labs have extensive experience diagnosing atypical BSE and will review our confirmation of this form of the disease. In addition, we will be conducting a comprehensive epidemiological investigation in conjunction with California animal and public health officials and the FDA.”
Clifford also emphasized this new BSE case “in no way affects the United States' BSE status as determined by the OIE. The United States has in place all of the elements of a system that OIE has determined ensures that beef and beef products are safe for human consumption: a mammalian feed ban, removal of specified risk materials, and vigorous surveillance. Consequently, this detection should not affect U.S. trade.
http://www.cattlenetwork.com/BSE-found-in-central-California-148737145.html
Mad Cow Disease Found In California: What Are The Risks To Humans?
Posted: 04/24/2012 5:35 pm
The United States Department of Agriculture has just confirmed the country's fourth case of mad cow disease, according to news reports.
The case was a dairy cow in central California, Reuters reported.
However, HuffPost Food reported that the cow had not entered the food chain so humans are safe in terms of consuming dairy products or beef.
According to the USDA statement:
It was never presented for slaughter for human consumption, so at no time presented a risk to the food supply or human health. Additionally, milk does not transmit BSE.
While the prospect of mad cow disease in America is scary, Cornell expert Martin Wiedmann said that the discovery of the cow is actually a testament to how good the testing for mad cow is in the U.S.
"The natural reaction is that it's a problem [they found this cow], but really they did a lot of testing and we were able to prevent this animal [from entering the food system] through testing," Wiedmann told HuffPost. Wiedmann is a professor of food science and a doctor of veterinary medicine, and is also the director of the Cornell Milk Quality Improvement Program.
Mad cow disease is also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or BSE. It is a neurological disease that occurs when a prion protein damages the brains of cattle, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC reported that there have been 22 cases of mad cow disease in North America up until February 2011, with three cases in the U.S. and 19 cases in Canada.
Mad cow disease is potentially dangerous for humans because it is linked with a human form of the disease called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD); evidence is strong that humans may develop the disease by eating meat from cows that had mad cow disease, according to the World Health Organization. There have also been four cases linked with blood transfusion, though the symptoms didn't manifest until years after the transfusion, according to the WHO.
There is a "relatively good link" between mad cow disease and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Wiedmann said, though it's not 100 percent guaranteed that if a person eats the meat he or she will develop vCJD. And especially with this newly discovered single case of mad cow disease in the U.S., "the risk is excessively low, close to nil."
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease causes a degeneration of the brain, and a person may first notice signs of it by experiencing depression, anxiety and painful senses. As the disease progresses, it causes symptoms like problems with walking and causing involuntary movements, according to the WHO, and when a person is about to die from the disease, it causes muteness and immobility.
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is not the same disease as classic CJD; classic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is also a prion disease, is not at all linked to mad cow disease, the CDC reported.
Classic CJD often occurs just on its own, with about one case occurring for every million people each year in the U.S., according to the CDC. The risk of this form of the disease increases as people get older. (For more on classic CJD, click here.)
For example, the CDC reported that the median death age for variant CJD is 28, while it's 68 for people with classic CJD.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/24/mad-cow-disease-variant-creutzfeldt-jakob-disease_n_1450195.html
Friday 20th April 2012
Protesters from justice4andy campaign made their thoughts clear about Justice Minister Kenneth Clarke in Brighton yesterday, where he was giving a speech about Human Rights. Despite high security protestors were able to speak to many delegates and state loud and clear Clarke’s culpability regarding the deaths of victims of vCJD, and the thousands Clarke allowed to be afflicted by contaminated blood. The police as usual were sympathetic and helpful to our aims as members of the constabulary have also been stolen by vCJD. Kenneth Clarke as usual stayed behind closed doors refusing to meet family members, it appears the bluff and supposedly strong minded minister is rather a wimp when faced with the truth.
I like to thank organiser of the demonstration Josephine for all her efforts as a concerned member of the public, she has not been affected by the human form of mad cows disease. But, like many of the UK public is angry and enraged that her children have been exposed to BSE. Intelligent and kind Josephine has worked tirelessly for the campaign as she recognises like thousands of our supporters that the cover-up that killed my Andrew could so easily have affected her own family. 
See photos outside the Brighton Conference Centre, of protester 4 year old Billy with his mum Judith Hajdaraj who received a blood transfusion in 2008, and Pete Buckland who lost his only son Mark aged 32 to vCJD in 2006 through a contaminated blood transfusion.
Kenneth Clarke Conservative MP who was Health Minister during BSE took the stage at the conference and pontificated about Human Rights and our legal system. His statement was another defeat for his right wing views that want to see the ordinary man and woman in the street under the thumb of ever tightening political rule. 
During its current tenure the Conservative led government with pressure from Clarke have tried so far without success to radically revise the Human Rights criteria, which would have been to the detriment of many individuals in the UK. Since taking up his job as Justice Minister Kenneth Clarke with the right wing cabinet firmly in his pocket, has tried his best to block every avenue of legal redress for victims of vCJD and those affected by the disease. Clarke is running out of time and knows that criminal proceedings against him regarding his wrongdoing, lies and corruption during and since BSE is fast approaching. Like a petrified rabbit in the headlights Kenneth Clarke is using his position and every ounce of his influence to stop any inquests, court cases, or inquires connected with vCJD/BSE from being heard in public or open to the press. Clarke is pushing forward the Justice and Security Green Paper which though its should be just about keeping the UK safe from terrorism has the ability to silence every wrong doing the Conservative party has done in the past, currently or future.
Clarke’s green paper with its over arching powers could silence any court case, inquest, inquiry or evidence which Kenneth Clarke or the UK Government ‘ deem sensitive’ by being held ‘in camera’ in secret with no public or press access.
I am appalled that a man who is criminally implicated in so many unlawful deaths continues to have such influence and has the hypocrisy to talk and make statement’s regarding human rights and justice. 
Supporters of Justice4Andy.com and myself remain steadfast in our pursuit of the truth and will run those responsible for the killing of so many innocent people and the disablement of thousands to ground. . We will continue to pursue Kenneth Clarke observe his every move, track his failing career until he and his cronies face criminal proceedings and an open justice system that Clarke is trying so hard to dismantle.
‘The dead cannot cry out for justice, it’s the duty of the living to do that for them.’
Tuesday 17th April 2012
The article below highlights how serious the EU regards the reclaiming of discarded and waste meat. From the end of April there will be a ban on bulking up burgers, sausages and cheap meat products with reclaimed and waste meat in the UK. Decades after experts warned that ‘mechanically recovered meat’ transmits BSE to humans its only now in 2012 that the EU have finally forced the UK Government to ban this product from human consumption. UK Lamb and beef have been used continually to make re constituted mince, both these UK animals continue to suffer from scrapie and BSE and yet these diseased creatures have fed our families for decades.
The feature online from the Daily Mail is foolish in its negative stance towards the EU policy, stating that food prices will rocket.
The Mail journalist suggesting that already hard pressed families will suffer even greater financial problems. I am sure no matter how low a parent’s income they would not like their child or family member to die of vCJD. I am appalled that waste meat/reclaimed meat is still being used to feed our families and children as many experts believe this is what killed my Andrew. MRM mechanically reclaimed meat now re branded DSM ‘dis sinewed’ meat, is reclaimed from the bones and the discarded carcass of an animal. This vile pink mixture is something that no supermarket or restaurant wants but is used indiscriminately by food factories to bulk up burgers, sausages, pies and the lower end of the market food stuff, including cheap mince. DSM does not have to be labeled so the consumer is unaware of its origins and how close this process is to MRM which resulted in people becoming infected with the human form of BSE.
DSM material comes from the most infectious parts of an animal, where any disease would be dormant or active.
All waste meat and mechanically reclaimed meat should be discarded as it’s not fit for human consumption; this material also harbours BSE a disease that is still found in UK herds.
This article appears to be written from a government bias as many Tory shareholders, their families and friends make huge profits from reclaimed meat. I have traced back many Conservative Ministers and their family’s interests in the factories that produce cheap food using DSM so their agendas are purely partisan and not coming from a duty of care. These profit hungry Conservative officials are more interested in keeping their returns buoyant than the health of the UK population. The UK Food Standards Agency has been forced to capitulate and I am appalled that an organization that is supposed to keep public health and safety paramount is more interested on profit.
The EU and its policies can be bureaucratic and overloaded but this time they have it correct and I whole-heartedly support this policy as it will help save lives and hopefully prevent future deaths of vCJD through food.
THE MAIL ONLINE 5TH April 2012
Is this the end of the cheap burger? EU diktat on low-quality meat means prices are set to soar
* Ban on bulking up fast food with reconstituted mince to be introduced at the end of the month
* Food Standards Agency risked ban on the export of British meat products if it did not comply
By Fiona Macrae Science Correspondent
The price of burgers, sausages and pies is to rocket because of an EU ban on low-quality meat.
From the end of this month, there will be a ban on bulking up fast food and supermarket value ranges with reconstituted mince made from scraps of beef and lamb.
The move will hit the shopping budget of already hard-pressed families and lead to more meat being wasted in abattoirs.
Endangered: An EU ban on low-quality meat could spell the end for the cheap hamburger
The Food Standards Agency, which risked a ban on the export of British meat products if it did not impose the Brussels-driven ruling, stressed that the change is not being made because of health or safety issues.
Instead, it is the result of a disagreement over the definition of the so-called ‘desinewed meat’.
But the meat-processing industry accused the FSA of ‘bowing down’ to the European Commission and warned of price rises and job losses.
Health drive: Jamie Oliver's campaign for junk food to be banned from school canteens means desinewed meat features less in school dinners
Stephen Rossides, director of the British Meat Processors Association, said: ‘This is a criminal waste of a valuable food product at a time when we are being urged to reduce food wastage. Common sense has gone out of the window.
‘If economic principles apply, the cost of the burger will rise and it is going to be the less well-off who are affected at what is already a bad time.’
The row surrounds desinewed meat, or DSM.
This is meat that is left on bones and carcasses after slaughter. Rather than going to waste, it is grated off mechanically, creating a mince-like substance.
Jamie Oliver’s high-profile campaign for junk food to be banned from school canteens means DSM features less in school dinners than in the past.
But it is widely found in inexpensive meat products on sale in fast food restaurants and in supermarkets, where it is used to bulk up the meat content at low cost. The FSA sees DSM as being a different product to a second type of reconstituted meat, called mechanically separated meat, or MSM.
The higher pressures used in the MSM process means that while it is considered acceptable for chicken and pork, it is not deemed usable for beef and lamb, for fear of spreading diseases such as BSE.
However, the European Commission says DSM and MSM are one and the same.
Under this interpretation of the law, it will no longer be possible to put beef or lamb through even the gentler DSM processing.
Existing products will not be recalled but any foods that contain reconstituted beef or lamb will have to be reformulated.
The cheap desinewed meat in burgers will have to be replaced with more expensive cuts.
Chicken and pork carcasses can still undergo DSM processing but any foods they are put into will have to be clearly labelled.
Currently, DSM’s classification as meat means it counts towards the total meat content of a product and does not need to be listed separately on the label.
There are fears that the changes will push up the cost of some meat products so much that shoppers stop buying them, leading to job losses in Britain’s £6billion meat industry.
The British Meat Processors Association estimates that the total cost to the consumer and industry of the moratorium could reach £200million.
Describing the ban as ‘madness’, Mr Rossides said: ‘All this has happened at breakneck speed. The industry must be given time to adjust to any change in requirements and market circumstances in a controlled and properly managed way, in order to minimise market disruption and financial damage.
‘People are going to have to reformulate products, repackage and relabel. I don’t know that you won’t see an English sausage any more but it may be that it’s more expensive.’
The FSA said that if the dispute over classification can be resolved, the ban could be lifted. Its chief executive, Tim Smith, said the move had come ‘unexpectedly’.
The Food and Drink Federation said it supports ‘a pragmatic approach to the required changes, including a reasonable timeframe for the transition, to avoid disproportionate measures that could lead to meat being wasted, causing a significant impact on the environment and on the price and availability of meat raw material’.
A spokesman for the consumer watchdog Which? said that its research showed that shoppers want to know if they are eating desinewed meat and that clear labelling of food allows customers to make an informed choice.
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2125335/Is-end-cheap-burger-EU-diktat-low-quality-meat-means-prices-set-soar.html#ixzz1sHH3VRs9
Thursday 12th April 2012
Any vacation holiday or celebration is a time for many people to see friends, a break from work and share time with their family.
My Emma’s birthday was during the Easter holidays she is now 22 years old the same age when her brother Andrew started to become ill with vCJD. Very soon my youngest child will be older than her big brother. This Easter there was no sharing of eggs with my son, no family meal with my Andrew instead I walked to his grave, cried and re iterated my promise that ‘ I will expose those responsible for his unlawful death’.
Time has only strengthened my resolve, capabilities, skills and expanded the evidence and support for the campaign there is no sell-by-date on a mother’s love and need for justice.
Friday 6th April 2012
TaintedBlood and Manor House Group Press Release
HAEMOPHILIACS ACT TO PROTECT THEIR RIGHTS AGAINST CLARKE PROPOSALS
TaintedBlood and Manor House Group would like to inform you that Andrew March and a group of similarly dedicated campaigners have been working for some weeks on a legal case involving the failure of the Ministry of Justice to adequately publicise their consultation Green Paper on "Justice and Security".ˇˇ We are pleased to announce that on Wednesday 4th April 2012 Andrew filed a Judicial Review in the High Court (Administrative Division) regarding this matter.
The Green Paper ostensibly concerns the widening of the use of CMPs (Closed Material Procedures) in cases concerning National Security, but that is not where the proposals end. It has become clear that the proposals in the Green Paper will affect civil cases - such as medical negligence cases - and also inquests and other types of hearing.
As we worked it became clearer and clearer how much the haemophilia community would be adversely impacted on, should this Bill become law. For example, if we went to court in future with a medical negligence case ¨Cfor instance vCJD ¨C then we could face blanket secrecy in the courtroom and our present right to an open and democratic hearing could be lost for ever.
Monday 2nd April 2012
Below is a request from the Red Cross in America asking people affected by cjd and family members to give blood samples to test for the disease. The technology is there to screen blood and yet its remains a tool used behind closed doors and in secrecy. The US families and victims participating in this research have been told they will never be informed of its findings.
Though the Red Cross state these tests are not ˇ®certainˇ¯, I understand that these tests are very accurate. I have been in contact with a variety of individuals suffering from neurological symptoms who with the support of their Consultants have had their blood screened for vCJD.
Many of these patients have given me documentary evidence of this testing and the results which included genotypes. So the test is being used proactively by scientists and medics across the USA and UK.
Why cant this research by the American Red Cross and many other similar projects taking place be open and transparent? This would dispel the many myths and fears surrounding the disease and give patients and their families the control and autonomy they need over their lives and illness.
Here in the UK over 350 people have donated their blood for many decades who have since succumbed to sCJD, Older people can present with having sporadic CJD when in fact itˇ¯s vCJD the result of ingesting BSE infected material. Dozen of younger blood donors have also died of vCJD. This means hundreds possibly thousands of recipients of this blood/blood products/vaccines/medicines derived from CJD victims blood donations have never been officially traced or informed. We face a ticking health time-bomb regarding secondary infection of CJD via blood. Hopefully publication of the findings by the American Red Cross will be forthcoming and open to public and press scrutiny. Itˇ¯s a pity that any individuals taking part in this research will not be given the choice to know whether they carry or incubate the disease as it could mean they will continue to give blood with the potential to pass on and re cycle the disease.
REDCROSS REQUEST USA March 2012
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross) Jerome H. Holland Laboratory for Biomedical Research in Rockville, Maryland is collecting small volumes of blood from patients afflicted with various forms of transmissible spongiform encephalopathyˇ¯s (TSE)/prion diseases and their blood-related family members. The purpose of the research is to build a blood sample repository for studies on ways to detect the presence of prion protein or other markers of the disease in human blood.
Recent epidemiological evidence indicates that blood of patients with variant form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), that is prevalent in the United Kingdom, is infectious.
The questions about the possibility that blood from patients with the sporadic and familial forms of TSE might also be infectious is still not resolved even though 10 years of searching has not revealed any examples of blood-related transmission from patients with these non-variant forms of disease.
The development of a blood test to identify affected people in the pre-clinical stage of disease could eliminate the uncertainty about TSE-related blood safety. Some tests have been successful for testing animals infected with TSEs, but in order to know if any test will be reliable in humans, we need to test human blood.
CJD patients and their families are the only source of blood specimens that can answer this question, and we therefore ask you to support our effort.
If you or an affected relative is interested in participating, please contact the name listed below. No more than 50 ml of blood should be collected at a location convenient to you through your own arrangements with your physician and the blood sample should be sent to the Holland Laboratory at no cost to you. The samples will be processed and stored, frozen indefinitely, at the Holland Laboratory in Rockville, Maryland. The Red Cross will provide access to only designated research staff at the Red Cross or other research groups that have provided convincing evidence for a test to detect TSE in animals.
Participating individuals will NOT be notified about test results because the tests that will be performed on blood are experimental and their significance is not known and will remain uncertain for some years to come. The CJD foundation will be notified of any publications coming from our research.
Contact information:
Dr. Larisa Cervenakova; Phone: 301-738-0765; e-mail:
cervenakl@usa.redcross.org
Wednesday 28th March 2012
Many experts and scientists around the world are concerned about the rising cases of dementia and CJD in the global population, and the worrying trend for much younger individuals to develop these diseases. I am fifty five years old this year and when I was young in the 1960ˇ¯s dementia was rare and the exclusive disease of the very elderly.
In 2012 we face a global epidemic of dementia cases, with people in their fifties and forties and even younger developing the disease. Medics in Switzerland and across the globe are investigating this 21st century phenomenon, they have found this worrying trend is not due to an ageing, expanding population neither is it due to better diagnosis. They all cite environmental factors as the key with many believing BSE has played a huge role in the rise of dementia patients.
Many of these respected and prize winning scientists who are studying all forms of dementia including all types of CJD told me that ˇ®The rapid rise of sporadic CJD and dementia are not spontaneous and we believe that BSE infected material has played a part in many of these patients developing these distressing diseases. ˇ® adding ˇ® ˇ® Dementia cases are going through the roof in unprecedented numbers, some outside environmental factor has played a part with so many people developing the disease. We believe BSE infected material has made some people within the global population vulnerable to developing dementia/cjd whereas if they had not been exposed to BSE they would have never developed symptoms.ˇ¯
On Monday March 26th 2012 UK Prime Minister David Cameron also head of the Conservative political party who during the 1970s/1980s created, allowed and condoned BSE, announced the launch of UK nationwide screening for dementia. This is not about protecting the population but about surveillance of the human form of BSE. Ongoing MRI scans are being used to monitor cases of dementia and these are being carefully scrutinised by the CJD Unit and experts in vCJD. I have spoken to and continue to record many interviews with families whose loved ones have developed dementia type symptoms and they tell me that regular MRI scans are being taken and then sent to various experts in prion disease across the UK. MRI scans are very expensive and usually the NHS has a huge waiting list, people with severe cancers including brain tumours have to wait many weeks for a MRI. These scans paid for by the NHS are usually prioritised by age and need with older patients rarely receiving this type of diagnostic tool as itˇ¯s just too expensive, not deemed necessary and certainly not on a regular basis. The UK Conservative led government are keeping a close eye on the numbers of people developing dementia type symptoms as they know that many of these will be the direct result of exposure to BSE infected material.
My investigations have also shown this to be the case, the UK government are aware of the numbers of people developing symptoms of CJD and want to push any such cases into another diagnostic area removed from vCJD.or sporadic CJD. Already we have seen cases of young people with diagnosis such as ˇ® Sporadic CJD with signs of vCJDˇ¯ many others in their twenties with a diagnosis of dementia or some ˇ®non specific neurological diseaseˇ¯, this was unheard of in the 1960ˇ¯s when I was growing up and has only become a growing medical issue since BSE exposure. A further 92 children under the aged of 16 have died recently of non specific brain infections their parents left wondering with no answers.
The UK Department of Health are currently telling families with loved ones suffering from CJD that the disease must now be referred to a ˇ®prion diseaseˇ¯ as ˇ®CJDˇ¯ has too many negative connections with ˇ® mad cows diseaseˇ¯. By this subtle re-branding of the disease it removes public and family awareness away from the ˇ®human form of BSE. The disease and its origins, those staggering distressed cows become dis-connected. Government statistics regarding vCJD can then be manipulated.
VCJD is indeed the disease that can no longer be named for what it is the human lethal pathogen derived from BSE infected cows which David Cameronˇ¯s political party and members manufactured and spread throughout the UK and globe. The Conservative party with the support of Kenneth Clarke and John Gummer are desperately trying to eradicate all mention of vCJD/BSE and trying to wipe out victims by re branding the illness.. They are making out the disease no longer kills but instead CJD victims are being moved over to another category of diagnosis which carry no blame or accountability. This is a damage limitation exercise as blood screening and testing for CJD become ever closer.
. This sleight of hand using words to ˇ®hide and concealˇ¯ instead of ˇ®expose and revealˇ¯ is the same tactic John Gummer, Kenneth Clarke, Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Ministers used during the BSE scandal. . Remember Prime Minister John Major telling a vCJD victimˇ¯s mother that ˇ®there is no connection with BSE and your childˇ¯s deathˇ¯.
David Cameronˇ¯s Conservative party colleagues told us throughout BSE that ˇ® beef was safe to eatˇ¯ Now they will be telling us that vCJD and CJD cases have rapidly fallen and that thousands of people suffering from symptoms are now dying of dementia or Alzheimerˇ¯s instead of what they are truly suffering from CJD.
.In older people the changes in the brain regarding vCJD can differ from a younger person developing the disease, many could look like dementia or sporadic CJD. As Professor John Collinge world expert in vCJD told me during a BBC1 interview ˇ®Cases of sporadic CJD are rising and in older people vCJD could well present like sporadic CJD or a form of dementia.ˇ¯
Thursday 22nd March 2012
As followers and supporters of this website know my investigations into my Andrewˇ¯s unlawful continue into the source of the infection. The UK government CJD Unit specify that BSE infected material went into hundreds of food and medicine products, this is another way of taking the light off the real culprits.
MRM mechanically recovered meat which contained the most infectious part of BSE cattle was used extensively in the lower end of the food market namely commercially prepared baby food, school meals, and institutional foods such as hospitals, meals on wheels, old peoples homes, universities, colleges and for the Military. BSE infected material from foetal calve serum and also human material from blood donors who went on to die of vCJD were used to make vaccines. Below are just some of the ingredients used to make our childrenˇ¯s and families vaccines. With this blog is a photo of my Andrew with his best friend Owen, taking at the sea side just a few months before my son died of vCJD. Andrew cannot raise his head or walk, this is the reality for victims of vCJD.
As you can see bovine material from BSE herds and other animal derivatives were all included in the vaccines my son would have received in the 1980s and 1990s and also all the other victims of vCJD. These vaccines were used on millions of our children and UK citizens and also exported to millions more around the globe. Rabbits, monkeys and dogs have also been found to be susceptible and have developed the equivalent of vCJD.
The following adjuvants and ingredients have been documented as ingredients in vaccines 
Acetone (solvent used in fingernail polish remover)
Aluminum hydroxide
Aluminum phosphate
Aluminum sulfate
Amphotericin B
Animal tissues: pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain,
Dog kidney, monkey kidney
Chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg
Calf (bovine) serum
Betapropiolactone
Fetal bovine serum
Formaldehyde
Formalin
Gelatin
Glycerol
Human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue)
Hydrolyzed gelatin
Monosodium glutamate (MSG)
Neomycin (antibiotic)
Neomycin sulfate
Phenol red indicator
phenoxyethanol (antifreeze)
potassium diphosphate
potassium monophosphate
polymyxin B
polysorbate 20
polysorbate 80
porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein
residual MRC5 proteins
sorbitol
sucrose
streptomycin (antibiotic)
thimerosal (mercury)
tri(n)butylphosphate (neurotoxin)
VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells
Washed sheep red blood cells
Aluminum, a neurotoxin, is associated with Alzheimerˇ¯s disease and seizures.
Formaldehyde is a known cancer-causing agent commonly used to embalm corpses.
Glycerin, a tri-atomic alcohol extracted from natural fats which are putrified and decomposed, has known toxic effects including kidney, liver, and lung damage, dieresis, pronounced local tissue damage, gastrointestinal damage, death.
Neomycin and streptomycin (antibiotics) are known to case allergic reactions.
Phenol (carbolic acid is a deadly poison, a common disinfectant and dye.)
Phenyethanol is known to depress the central nervous system and may cause vomiting and diarrhea. (FDA)
Thimerosal (a mercury derivative) is a toxic heavy metal that is not easily eliminated from the body. Metal toxicity can result in brain injury and autoimmune disease.
Oil adjuvants are known to cause hypersensitivity reactions, cysts, and adjuvant arthritis.
Monday 19th March 2012
Below is a report of another officially recorded case of a cow suffering from BSE in Switzerland, it raises more questions than answers. In the same district in 2007 another cow was found to be suffering from BSE. Though the Swiss are more proactive than most European countries in monitoring cattle for BSE its not a hundred per cent and many more cattle incubating or sub clinical with BSE have probably entered the human food and medicine chain.
Medics based in Switzerland have written several papers on the rising cases of dementia and cjd in the country, they believe these cases are directly linked to BSE. Donˇ¯t be fooled by the wording of ˇ®different strainsˇ¯ as the disease has the same origins and the same devastating effect on cattle and human beings.
The Swiss export their chocolate, cheese and many other derivates from cattle around the globe they also import animal feed and cattle from the UK. What happened to this cows parents and siblings have they been traced and tested? Have their meat, milk, cheese and bovine material also entered the food and medicine chain? What farm did this cow come from in the UK? Is the rest of the herd in the UK being monitored or as I suspect has been speedily sent to slaughter.
One of the reasons the Swiss are stating that banned animal feed outlawed in 2005 has nothing to do with the cow developing BSE is that the manufacturer of the UK contaminated animal feed which was exported around the world, has many friends and shareholders within the UK government and Conservative party who created and condoned BSE, Lots of money has been made by Ministers and officials in the UK government during the 1980s, 1990s and beyond from the two major animal feed companies producing this vile mixture of animals remains in the UK.
The monitoring of cattle for BSE is active in Switzerland but this only means 1 in 60 cattle may be tested for the disease. So just how many other cows with BSE have entered the Swiss food and medicine chain?
If the UK had slaughtered all its cattle in the 1980s as Hong Kong killed every single fowl during the avian flu scare, I do believe the disease could have been contained and even stopped in its tracks and certainly would not have claimed my only sonˇ¯s life. Instead we face a ticking health time-bomb throughout the world due to the UK man made manufactured disease BSE and its lethal human pathogen vCJD.
12 March, 2012, 13:52
Mad cow strain found in Switzerland
The Federal Veterinary Office has confirmed one case of mad cow disease in the canton of Bern. The cow was slaughtered last month. The case was discovered as part of a monitoring programme implemented by Swiss authorities. According to vets the cow was not infected with a classical case of BSE, but rather an atypical strain. They say that means the disease was not triggered by a certain animal feed outlawed in 2005. The cow was imported to Switzerland in 2006. Until this case, no cows with BSE have been found in Switzerland since 2007. The Federal Veterinary Office confirms it may have found another one of these atypical cases but stresses this strain of disease is rare. BSE was first diagnosed in 1990, and since then 467 cows were diagnosed with it in Switzerland. No cases of the human strain have ever been detected here.
http://worldradio.ch/wrs/news/wrsnews/mad-cow-disease-strain-in-switzerland.shtml?29563
Tuesday 13th March 2012
SABTO Safety of blood tissue and organs is an apparently independent group of experts who meet regularly to advise and make recommendations to the government re public health safety and well being.
They have a few public meeting each year in central London which I always attend, usually I am the only ordinary member of the public there as the meetings are never properly or fully advertised. By law ˇ®public meetingsˇ¯ have to be advertised sufficiently so that the population who will be most affected by the recommendations have the ability to challenge and/or attend. I was told that SABTOˇ¯s funds could not stretch to publishing these meetings but they seem to meet overnight accommodation, fine wine and dining, expenses and first class travel for many of the so called experts who take part in these events. .
It was brought to my attention by several high ranking government officials at the heart of Westminster who support
www.justice4andy.com that SABTO were due to have a ˇ®closedˇ¯ meeting on Friday 9th March to discuss amongst other things blood filtration and vCJD. Despite scouring SABTOˇ¯s website and contacting their secretary all details, programme, and agenda regarding this meeting has been kept in total secrecy. Event the venue, location where UK and international experts in blood safety and vCJD would meet was kept under-wraps.
With this blog is a photo taken of me, Andrew and Emma when my son was alive and well. We accuse all those that lie and continue to hide and bend the truth, my family though decimated by vCJD continues to be strong and determined to seek justice.
I have put in a written request to SABTO for the minutes of this ˇ®secret meetingˇ¯ and also have asked to know who attended and any speakers that gave presentations. Itˇ¯s very concerning that a so called ˇ®non partisanˇ¯ group set up to oversee the rights; health and safety of the general public are conducting themselves in such a covert manner.
On the occasions I have attended SABTOˇ¯s public meetings I have been met with dislike, disdain and often my questions remain unanswered or brushed aside by the groups of experts present. I have never received the respect due to me as a bereaved mum or even as an ordinary citizen of the UK. I am a thorn in their side a true voice as all those connected or who sit on SABTOˇ¯s board relie on funding, salaries, expenses or their livelihoods to the Department of Health, NHS or government agencies.
I fear the minutes when they are made public will be a ˇ®filleted versionˇ¯ of events and the culture of secrecy that killed my son will continue to weave its web of intrigue and cover-ups. For all of those who continue to prevent openness, transparency and the truth getting into the public arena this is a warning that in the near future you will be ˇ®hung by your own petard.ˇ¯
Wednesday 7th March 2012
My Andrew left me over four years ago and yet the pain never lessens or heals, I have just become better at hiding the despair and somehow have kept breathing and surviving.
BSE killed my only son and I am damned if it will kill me too.
Whatever I do or achieve will never make up for my Andrewˇ¯s loss but I am hopeful in the near future those responsible will face our legal system and my Andrew and all victims will have their day in open court.
At the moment Kenneth Clarke Justice Minister is trying to push through a Green Paper which would mean that inquests, inquiries or court cases Whitehall deemed ˇ®sensitiveˇ¯ could be held in secret and behind closed doors. If the Green Paper becomes law it could prevent any legal action taken by those affected by vCJD from being held in an open and public court. If this green paper become law the UK government could and would silence any revelations and findings behind closed doors and the public would never know the truth about vCJD and its true origins and creators. The cover-ups that began with the manufacturing and condoning of BSE material into the human food and medicine chain by the likes of Kenneth Clarke would then control the courts and how those cases would be conducted.
Dozens of top lawyers and QCˇ¯s have challenged this green paper which may become law by the end of the year as a total erosion of British Justice. In the ˇ®Response of the Law Reform Committee to the Justice and Security Paperˇ¯ 11th January 2012 they state:
"It is one thing to argue that, for reasons of national security, the
unfairness and lack of transparency inherent in CMPs should be tolerated in
specific areas - such as deportation appeals and control order proceedings.
It is quite another to suggest that Government Ministers should be endowed with
a discretionary power to extend that unfairness and lack of transparency to any
civil proceedings, including proceedings to which they are themselves party."
Kenneth Clarke is also pushing for legal aid to be stopped so that individuals and families in poverty and despair will no longer have access to our legal system.
This will mean any family on low income whose loved one has or is dying of vCJD would never be able to pursue the case through our legal system as financially it would be prohibitive. Once again the poorest and the most needy in society will unable to fight for justice. Conservative right wing politics are making the divides between rich and poor wider by the day deliberately forging an abyss between the ˇ®haveˇ¯ and ˇ®have nots.ˇ¯
The implementation of the Justice and Security paper is yet another dangerous step towards ˇ®dictatorshipˇ¯ by David Cameronˇ¯s ever right wing party. The green paper would mean government officials and agencies would dictate who and what is heard in open court and use it as an everyday tool to hide government ministers wrong doings and illegal activities. 
Kenneth Clarke and those responsible for BSE/vCJD know that with the implementation of blood screening tests for vCJD and the development of new treatments and research that we will soon know prevalence of vCJD in the population and also the exact source and location of the infection. With these revelations will come legal cases against those I name and shame on this website including Kenneth Clarke. Families affected by vCJD want and demand transparency and openness and this Justice and Security paper will deny and silence the truth.
Despite Kenneth Clarkeˇ¯s Machiavellian manoeuvres families affected by vCJD will not be defeated or silenced and will fight for justice and the truth with every part of our heart and soul. We are grateful for the dozens of advocates, MPs, Peers,
members of the police, armed forces and various groups and organisations that are challenging the Justice and Security paper to stop it or a watered version of it becoming law.
This Justice and Security paper will threaten the constitutional right of every man, woman and child in the UK and with it we would come a step nearer to a ˇ®dictatorship.ˇ¯ Join us in the campaign for free speech and for every man, woman and child in the UK to have the right to a legal system that is open, transparent, fair and just. Not one that is used, abused and dictated by the amoral likes of Kenneth Clarke and his cronies for their own benefit hide their wrongdoings and illegal activities.
www.justice4andy.com
Wednesday 29th March 2012
Below is just some of the media coverage in the UK regarding the individual blood screening test for vCJD. To the public, media and outside world the UK Government appears to be making all the right noises and supporting a test which will safeguard all donated blood. Behind the scenes this is not the case, I have and continue to witness time and again Whitehallˇ¯s attempts to undermine the science, delay and block a blood test for vCJD.
The UK Government want to keep the test ˇ®secretˇ¯ and its results never open to public scrutiny, where transparency is essential Ministerˇ¯s and their cronies are desperate that we never know the truth behind BSE/vCJD and just how many of us have been exposed. Those who have the most to loose are the ones controlling all aspects of vCJD including treatments and blood screening.
Campaigners, activists and family members affected by vCJD a UK man made manufactured disease will continue to push for the individual blood screening test to be conducted with transparency and openness, so that in the future no more lives are stolen and wrecked by vCJD. The test will also finally answer many questions such as how many people have been exposed to BSE? How many people are ˇ® silent carriersˇ¯ of the disease, never get ill but have the ability to pass vCJD onwards through blood? What was the exact source and route of the vCJD infection? Individual blood screening will stop further deaths and prevent future victims. The test is relatively cheap compared to the hundreds of millions of pounds the UK government continue to spend on trying to filter donated blood. Yet Cameron and his cabinet favour filtration not because itˇ¯s safer but because it will never expose those responsible from BSE/vCJD.
The Telegraph - Thursday 3 February 2011
vCJD blood test developed
British scientists have developed the world's first reliable blood test for vCJD, which could reveal the true extent of the disease's prevalence in the population. The new test is 100,000 times more sensitive than the current method...
The Mail - Sunday 5 February 2012
Revealed: Plans to secretly test 30,000 NHS blood transfusion patients as CJD fears escalate
Thousands of NHS patients could be secretly monitored by the Government for symptoms of the human form of mad cow disease amid concerns that there could be another wave of infections. Chris James, chief executive of the Haemophilia Society, said: 'We are shocked to learn there was ever any suggestion of non-consensual monitoring.
The Independent - Saturday 14 January 2012
vCJD blood test used in UK
A blood test for the human form of mad cow disease is being used in the UK for the first time, it has been revealed. Professor Collinge: "We have recently offered this test to UK neurologists and colleagues around... the world (who) are sending us samples from patients in which variant CJD is a possibility in the diagnosis.
Channel 4 footage - Friday 13 January 2012
Blood Test Breakthrough
A blood test for variant CJD is for the first time being offered to patients from around the UK and some from abroad who are suspected of having what was once known as mad cow disease. (Victoria Macdonald - Channel 4 Heath & Social Care Correspondent)
BBC Three Counties Radio - Wednesday 16 November 2011
Liz interview on BBC Three Counties Radio
Helen Lee interviews Liz who highlights the risks of vCJD transmission in blood. (pre-recorded - date unknown)
ITV Meridian News - Friday 11 November 2011
Screening for CJD?
The families of those who've died from the human form of mad cow disease are calling on the Government to introduce a national screening programme. It could prevent variant CJD from spreading through transfusions and donations. Reporter : Tom Savvides. Broadcast time: 3.05pm)
The Guardian - Monday 19 September 2011
We need to know the truth about vCJD numbers
Frank Dobson writes in the Guardian: With so many lives possibly at stake and so much money being spent, the new blood test offers the prospect of certainty for the first time. The researchers want the government to authorise trials of the new blood test so we will know how many people are likely to be infected with vCJD.
The Sunday Times - Sunday 18 September 2011
60,000 may have human variant of mad cow disease
John Collinge, professor of neurology at University College London and a former member of SEAC, said it was not known how sensitive to the test vCJD was during incubation but blood donors would almost certainly have included those with the disease. He said: "I don't think people would accept that level of risk of being infected with HIV or hepatitis. I am surprised this finding has not triggered more action."
BBC Radio Sussex - YouTube - Friday 4 February 2011
Radio interview with Mark Ward
Neil Pringle interviews Mark Ward and talks about the risks of blood and blood products contaminated with variant vCJD.
Suite 101 Website - Wednesday 5 May 2010
vCJD Families Protest outside Downing Street, London
Families of vCJD victims gathered outside Downing Street, on 4th May 2010, to demand the UK government reveal the true numbers of people affected by vCJD. An effective test is available but they will not use it. Why not? Christine Lord, Grahame Bell and other members of the protest think it's maybe because screening people's blood would reveal the true magnitude of the problem...
Demotix.com - The Street Wire - Tuesday 4 May 2010
Families of CJD victims take protest to the Prime minister
A group of campaigners who have been fighting for the government to release information on the extent of the spread of vCJD gathered today at No'10 to protest as vCJD continues to claim victims over 10 years after meat products have been branded safe... The campaigners also highlighted the danger of CJD infection by blood transfusion...
Suite 101 Website - Wednesday 5 May 2010
vCJD Families Protest outside Downing Street, London
Families of vCJD victims gathered outside Downing Street, on 4th May 2010, to demand the UK government reveal the true numbers of people affected by vCJD. An effective test is available but they will not use it. Why not? Christine Lord, Grahame Bell and other members of the protest think it's maybe because screening people's blood would reveal the true magnitude of the problem
Wednesday 22nd February 2012 
The high incidence of sporadic CJD on the Greek island of Crete is very worrying as it suggests environmental factors and causes. Since this published paper in 2001 the victims and their families and the cause of the outbreak has remained a secret. Scientists who researched the cases see published paper below have determined that the Turkish population have a susceptibility to cjd. I disagree and believe these victims deaths are more about exposure to a common source of infection. With this blog is a photo of Kate Richer who died aged 22 of vCJD as a child she had vacations on a farm and helped the farmer feed and look after his cattle and animals.
This group of victims on Crete cannot be called spontaneous or sporadic outbreak but a cluster of cases.A 16 year old Muslim Turkish girl has died of vCJD in the UK and in December 2011 a man of 47 was diagnosed in Turkey with probable Vcjd. There is a link between all these cases which points at a common source of infection. Stating the Turkish community is more ˇ®at riskˇ¯ of developing cjd is a very simplistic view and not addressing victims connections with the UK which are relevant.
All of the victims on Crete and the person in Turkey would have been exposed to UK exported food or medicines at some time during their lives. Every individual and cluster of cases of vCJD
I have investigated in the UK has brought to my attention people who have also died of sporadic cjd in the same location/district. None of these so called ˇ®co incidencesˇ¯ and ˇ®clustersˇ¯ have or are being investigated by the UK Department of Health or CJD unit. Itˇ¯s a can of worms that the Conservative led government do not want the public to become aware of as all these rising cases of cjd point at BSE exposure.
Why after decades of the same gene pool would there be such a dramatic increase in cases of sCJD on the island of Crete? Why would a middle aged man who had never visited the UK who never had a blood transfusion develop vCJD in Turkey in 2011? It all points at some environmental/lifestyle factor, foods, medicines, animal feed and common exposure. Like many greek islands, Crete has hundreds of cats and at least 50 cats died of the equivalent of feline BSE here in the UK. . Talking to my cretan friends I understand that during the period when people were dying of CJD on the island that many cats and dogs were also suddenly dying. None of this was investigated.
Many people from the UK visit Turkey and Crete every year and both areas have strong links with UK residents.The island of Crete has a long standing relationship with the UK and my belief is that this high incidence of sCJD on the island may have more to do with those connections and exposure to UK BSE infected material than anything else.
According to experts a personˇ¯s genotype may be important if or when a person develops vCJD the acquired form of the disease. Scientists believe that individuals with the MM codon 129 genotype apparently have the shortest length between infection and development of symptoms approximately eleven and half years from exposure.
However here in the UK MMs. MVs and VVs have all succumbed and died of vCJD, I have interviewed and filmed the victims and their families. In experiments with cows who are all MM genotype it was found the more infected material ingested the shorter the incubation period.
Though MVˇ¯s genotype apparently have some protection regarding vCJD which may mean a lengthening of the incubation period or the ability to be a ˇ®silent carrierˇ¯ never develop the disease but pass it onwards through blood.
I believe this high rate of Cretan sCJD cases is significant and should have been investigated further. How many of these individuals visited or had familial connections with the UK? How many of the victims received vaccines, medicines sourced from the UK? How many of these individuals had exposure to animals/ animal feed or dog/cat food sourced and made in the UK? How many of these victims ate food made from UK BSE infected cattle? Were any of these victims blood donors?
Since the end of the Second World War and particularly during the 1980ˇ¯s Cretans have welcomed many UK residents into their homes, families and businesses. I know Crete very well having visited the island and experienced the friendly hospitality of its people, I am aware of its geography, history, culture and food.
I know that many UK residents have not only made the island their home but married Cretans.
Many of the villages are still rather remote and isolated so I believe that more people have died of cjd in Crete than have been recorded.
The first case officially recorded of sCJD in Crete during 1997 is in direct correlation with the first officially recognised cases of vCJD here in the UK. Why didnˇ¯t experts examine this surge of cases in the relatively small population of Crete in more depth? Once again an opportunity to find answers has been blocked and sidelined as governments do not want the population and families affected by CJD to know the truth.
Subject: Increased incidence of sporadic CJD on the island of Crete
Date: August 3, 2001 at 7:28 pm PST
Increased incidence of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease on the island of Crete associated with a high rate of PRNP 129-methionine homozygosity in the local population
Andreas Plaitakis, MD 1 *, Anna K. Viskadouraki, MD 1, Minas Tzagournissakis, MD 1, Ioannis Zaganas, MD 1, Susan Verghese-Nikolakaki, PhD 2, Vasilis Karagiorgis 2, Ioannis Panagiotides, MD 3, Constantine Kilindireas, MD 4, Eustratios Patsouris, MD 5, Christine Haberler, MD 6, Herbert Budka, MD 6, Theodoros Sklaviadis, PhD 2 1Department of Neurology, Division of Medicine, University of Crete, School of Health Sciences, Heraklion, Crete, Greece 2Laboratory of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Health Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece 3Department of Pathology, Division of Medicine, University of Crete, School of Health Sciences, Heraklion, Crete, Greece 4Department of Neurology, University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece 5Department of Pathology, University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece 6Institute of Neurology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria email: Andreas Plaitakis (
plaitakis@med.uoc.gr)
*Correspondence to Andreas Plaitakis, Department of Neurology, University of Crete, School of Health Sciences, Voutes, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Funded by: General Secretariat of Research and Technology of Greece; Grant Number: YPER-97 Association for the Advancement of Research and Treatment of Neurologic Disorders of Crete Eú Zr
Abstract
Since the spring of 1997, when the Neurology Department of the University Hospital of Crete admitted its first patient, 9 cases (8 neuropathologically confirmed and 1 probable) of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (sCJD) have been recorded. This represents an annual incidence five-fold higher than expected based on the island's population (0.54 million). Molecular analysis of the prion-protein gene (PRNP) showed no mutations in any of the seven CJD cases studied. Five patients (ages 64-88 years) were homozygous for methionine-129 of PRNP and showed the classic sCJD triad (subacute dementia, myoclonus, periodic electroencephalogram). Brains contained Type 1 (unglycosylated 21.5 kDa band) protease-resistant prion protein (PrPres). Two patients (ages 56 and 57 years), both homozygous for valine-129, showed cerebellar ataxia and later dementia not associated with periodic electroencephalogram; brain PrPres was Type 2. Genotyping of 205 Cretan controls showed that methionine-129 homozygosity, a susceptibility factor for sCJD, was significantly higher in this population than in other Caucasian populations (57.0%, n = 205 versus 41.5%, n = 859. These data are the first to relate a high regional incidence rate for sCJD to the distribution of PRNP 129 genotypes in the local population; however, additional factors may be operational.
Received: 11 December 2000; Revised: 3 April 2001; Accepted: 3 April 2001
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/83502018/START
Distribution of the M129V polymorphism of the prion protein gene in a Turkish population suggests a high risk for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Nihan Erginel-Unaltuna1, Katell Peoc'h2, Evrim Komurcu1, Tufan Tevfik Acuner3, Halim Issever4 and Jean-Louis Laplanche*,2 1Department of Genetics, Institute for Experimental Medical Research, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey; 2Service de Biochimie et Biologie MoleÂculaire, Association Claude Bernard, HoÃpital LariboisieÁre, Paris, France; 33rd Neurology Clinic, Turkish Ministry of Health Bakirkoy Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases, Istanbul, Turkey; 4Division of Biostatistics and Demography, Department of Public Health, Istanbul Medical School, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
A polymorphism (M129V) at codon 129 of the prion protein gene (PRNP) results in either a methionine residue (Met) or a valine residue (Val) and is known to determine susceptibility for the development of sporadic or acquired Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). The distributions of M129V genotypes and alleles in various general populations have been reported and there are clear differences between Western Europeans and East Asians. We analysed the coding sequence of the PRNP gene in 100 healthy Turkish subjects to determine whether the distributions of the M129V genotypes and alleles or other PRNP gene variants in the Turkish population differ from those in other normal populations. Three known polymorphisms but no other gene variants were detected in the PRNP coding sequence of the Turkish individuals. Genotype frequencies at codon 129 were 57% Met/Met, 34% Met/Val and 9% Val/Val, with an allele frequency of 0.740 : 0.260 Met:Val. These distributions are considerably different from those reported for other normal populations residing in Western Europe and East Asia, except in Crete. The higher frequency of 129 Met-homozygotes in Turkey than in Western Europe suggests that the Turkish are at greater risk of developing CJD.
European Journal of Human Genetics (2001) 9, 965 ± 968.
Keywords: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; prion; gene; PRNP; polymorphism; Turkey; population; genetic snip...
Consequently, the distributions of the M129V genotypes and alleles in the Turkish population differ considerably from those reported for other normal populations residing in either Western Europe or East Asia, with the notable exception of Cretan natives. A recent report19 found that the high rate of PRNP 129Met homozygosity in Crete was associated with a local increase in the incidence of sporadic CJD. As homozygosity at PRNP codon 129 is a recognized risk factor for sporadic and acquired CJD in Caucasians5,21 and heterozygosity is protective,2 ± 4,21 the higher frequency of 129Met-homozygotes in Turkey than in Western Europe would also suggest that the Turkish are at increased risk of developing CJD.
http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v9/n12/pdf/5200754a.pdf
Increased Incidence of Sporadic Creutzfeldt- Jakob Disease on the Island of Crete Associated with a High Rate of PRNP 129-Methionine Homozygosity in the Local Population.
