Prayer Need: Could Cattle
Mutilations Be Linked To A Silent 'Mad Cow' Plague?
By Michael H. Brown
First story
FA while back we reported
on the mystery of "cattle mutilations," the cases in which cows have been found
strangely dead, with blood and specific body parts often missing. Through the
years, conspiracy buffs have speculated that the cause of such mutilations --
which have occurred in 15 states during the 1970s alone, and dozens of times in
states like Colorado -- were the work of everything from satanic cults to secret
military operatives or even "aliens."
As we reported, a small
group of researchers in
Las Vegas
known as the National Institute for Discovery Science (which lists former
astronaut Edgar Mitchell on its board) has issued a study asserting a link
between such mutilations and outbreaks of what are known as "prions," proteins
that may cause a range of neurological "wasting" diseases. When such wasting
disease hits deer, outbreaks are often accompanied or preceded by strange cattle
mutilations. Because the missing body parts are surgically removed, and because
the organs are tissues where prions may collect (some argue it's not just the
brain and spinal column), the speculation is that the government, particularly
the military, may be quietly monitoring for the spread of prion disease: in
other words, a silent plague.
This is all especially
relevant because besides afflicting deer (especially in states like Colorado),
prions are the suspected agents behind mad-cow disease. In fact, the concern has
been that the prions may be spreading from deer to grazing beef herds and that
it may be much more widespread than what we have been led to believe. We must
caution that such theorizing involves great speculation, and that the situation
may be simply what the government portrays: that so far there is only one
verifiable case of "mad cow" in the U.S., and that it didn't even originate
here, that it was imported from Canada.
We can pray that
something so limited is the case. The small institute wonders if a "subclinical"
type of brain-wasting disease is already fairly pervasive. Subclinical means
that the afflicted animals do not show overt symptoms, or are simply called
"downer" cows, animals that lose their ability to stand upright because of age
or what was thought to be conventional sickness. Each year about 200,000 cattle
that are too sick to walk are slaughtered. The U.S. Agriculture Department last
week banned the further processing of such meat. The fact is that animals can
harbor these infectious agents without displaying detectable sickness. Tests
already have shown that the disease can spread from mink to cattle that then
display the "downer cow" syndrome, and that many diseased animals may be
rendered into feed.
Have any of these
"downer" cows actually been subclinical cases of "mad cow"? And if so, could
they have spread it to humans? Perhaps this is all far out. Perhaps not. We
submit it for your discernment. The researchers further point out that when the
disease infects humans, it is known as kuru or Creutzfeld-Jakob disease.
Are some cases of Alzheimer's really the human form of mad cow? When a scientist
from Yale University analyzed the brains from 46 Alzheimer's patients, she found
that six (or 13 percent) were actually Creutzfeld-Jakob cases. If extrapolated,
this would mean 200,000 to 400,000 cases a year. Could this be part of the
scenario of graduated events about which we have so often written?
It's certainly something
that should be taken to prayer, for since 1979 there has been a twenty-fold
increase in "Alzheimer's."
"[The data] show a
dramatic increase in Alzheimer deaths after 1979 in the United States coincident
with the spread of chronic-wasting disease throughout the wildlife population,"
notes the team, which implies that someone has been surreptitiously monitoring
the spread through the mysterious sampling of cattle in western states.
January
2004
'Mad Cow' Linked To Region
Of Canada That Was
Focus Of Strange 'Mutilations'
Second
story
So-called
"cattle mutilations" -- those mysterious instances in which animals are found
with parts of their bodies missing, or even devoid of all blood -- have occurred
precisely in the parts of Canada now considered to be the epicenter of both
wildlife brain-wasting disease and the first publicly-declared cases of mad-cow
disease in North America.
Researchers point out
that since 1994, there have been at least 18 cases of unexplained animal
mutilations in the remote province
of Saskatchewan
-- which is also where forty cases of chronic-wasting syndrome, a disease that
may be linked to "mad cow," have been documented.
Moreover,
it is believed the infected Holstein that recently made
headlines in the state of Washington
came from a dairy farm in the Canadian province of Alberta. That
was also where Canada witnessed its own first case of mad cow last year. The
diseased cow originated on a farm in Baldwinton, Saskatchewan --
the province that forms Alberta's eastern border and
also has been the epicenter of Canadian cattle mutilations (at left
the circles indicate mutilations and the stars outbreaks of chronic wasting in
wildlife such as deer and elk). The wasting syndrome has hit west and north
of Saskatoon,
focusing on a town called North Battlefield.
Since the 1970s -- when
such brain-wasting diseases were first reported among wildlife in places like
Colorado -- there have been parallel reports of cattle found dead in the
strange, gruesome, and yet surgical manner near those very same vicinities.
Often the tongues, eyes, reproductive organs, or other tissues have been cleanly
taken -- indicating to some that it may be the result of a clandestine
monitoring operation. It is believed that the infectious agent -- perhaps
nucleic acids attached to "prions" -- may accumulate in certain mammalian
issues. Spreading in wildlife and cattle, such an agent would pose a plague
threat.
For years,
everything from satanic cults
to aliens have been blamed for the well-documented mutilations -- so widespread
that they once even drew the ire of Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm, who
publicly declared the occurrences an "outrage" that could not be blamed on
normal predators. Similar cases have been reported in at least a dozen U.S.
states. Farmers and ranchers have found cows and bulls dead and in some
instances missing much of their body weight, with signs of the surgical removal.
Blood is gone from the animal, though there is no evidence of human or animal
tracks and not a drop of blood at the actual scene, mystifying investigators.
The question
posed by some is whether the brain-wasting disease,
known as "transmissible spongiform encephalopathy," or TSE, escaped from a
laboratory or rose naturally -- and whether the government is now trying to
monitor its spread without alarming the public. "We hypothesize that the animal
mutilations reported in northwestern Saskatchewan in the past several years may
have been a covert TSE sampling operation by perpetrators who knew that TSE was
spreading from farmed elk and deer in Saskatchewan to wild deer and thence to
cattle," notes the National Institute for Discovery Science in Nevada -- another
state that has witnessed the strange mutilations.
January
2004
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