Mad cow cover-up in Colorado

by Cloe Wright, May 21, 2004

I have an elder care job with Home Instead Senior Care. One of my jobs recently was to drive a woman to visit her brother who was dying. They thought he had mad cow disease. Well, he died a few days ago and they did the biopsy and sure enough he died of mad cow disease. Basically, he was perfectly fine, went into the hospital complaining of a headache, and died seven days later.

Today I took the woman to the funeral, reception and after dinner. Some family members told me they called the Communicable Diseases Department and were told that sixteen people in Colorado have died of mad cow since January, but they won't publicize it because it would devastate the Colorado beef and tourist industries, the two biggest industries. So the family said, well we'll call the newspapers and they said, well they won't print it.

Do you believe that?! So watch out for that beef!

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[The above is an email I got from a friend in Boulder. I have no reason to doubt it, except that there might be some confusion between regular Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant CJD or human mad cow. But according to this beef industry propaganda page, only "about two cases of CJD are reported in Colorado every year." Sixteen in less than five months would be more than 40 a year! -- Ran]