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by ggreer 1881 days ago
If US beef was contaminated, wouldn’t there be thousands of cases of vCJD[1] by now?

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Creutzfeldt–Jakob_dise...
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imglorp 1881 days ago
Yes there could be. It remains latent for years after consuming the infected meat. Guess we'll find out! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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ggreer 1881 days ago
We did find out. The US has had a total of 4 cases of vCJD, all of which were contracted overseas.[1] For comparison, the UK has had over 170 cases.[2]

1. https://www.cdc.gov/prions/vcjd/vcjd-reported.html

2. See table 3 in the PDF on this page: https://www.termedia.pl/Review-article-r-n-r-nVariant-Creutz...

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