[SpamCop-Social] Re: On non sequiturs

[Chris Wright]

Sylvesterthekat wrote:
> "D.F. Manno" <dfmanno at mail.com> wrote in
> news:dfmanno-43ECB2.18410924052006 at news.cesmail.net: 
> 
>  
>> You're making an unspoken assumption here: that the risk in the case
>> of the blood is the same percentage as the chance of hitting the
>> lottery. If it isn't, then your reasoning has a hole in it.
> 
> Considering how many millions of people in the UK were eating beef products 
> in the late 80s and early 90s (when BSE was most prevalent) and how many 
> have turned out to have CJD, I'd say the odds in fact are even better than 
> 1 in 13 million for not being infected. 
> 

The medical community are treating this as a possible 'sleeping giant' 
of a problem, since there is no known test for finding out who is 
infected, only quite a difficult test to determine if you have vCJD once 
the onset of problems begin.