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re:CJD in venison - 2006/11/18 00:37
http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/deadly201.cfm
Suspicion that a fatal, incurable illness can spread from infected deer to humans is increasing. Here, a special report on chronic wasting disease and how one hunter may have lost his life from it.
Jay Dee Whitlock was a husband and father, a sportsman from Oklahoma with a passion for deer hunting. But in January 1999, his wife, Julie, noticed he was forgetting phone numbers and seemed confused while driving. When Julie voiced her concerns, Jay Dee said it was nothing, and Julie told herself she was overreacting. Everyone forgets something, right?
But a few weeks later, two of Jay Dee's coworkers called on her. "They said he was more and more withdrawn at work," Julie Whitlock remembers, "that he wouldn't eat lunch with people." A truck driver for six years, Jay Dee was also having problems delivering his loads. Before, "You'd give him an address and directions, and he'd find it 400 miles away," Whitlock says. But now, said his coworkers, Jay Dee couldn't locate places he'd delivered to in the past. "It just made me sick when they told me that," Whitlock says.
Over the next 15 terrible months, in and out of various hospitals and, at the last, a nursing home, Julie watched helplessly as Jay Dee deteriorated physically, mentally, and emotionally from Creutzfeldt-Jakob (pronounced
CROYTS-felt YAH-kob) disease, or CJD. It is untreatable, incurable, and always fatal. While Whitlock says doctors have no idea how her husband contracted this dreadful disease, no one can rule out the venison Jay Dee regularly ate.
"I'll never touch another deer," says Whitlock, "or eat deer meat ever again."
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