With all the other problems in the world, now we have to worry about contaminated squirrel brains?
Granny won't be too pleased to hear this, as it's the secret ingredient in possum stew.
A man in New York developed an extremely rare and fatal brain disorder after he ate squirrel brains, according to a new report of the man's case.
In 2015, the 61-year-old man was brought to a hospital in Rochester, New York, after experiencing a decline in his thinking abilities and losing touch with reality, the report said. The man had also lost the ability to walk on his own.
An MRI of the man's head revealed a striking finding: The brain scan looked similar to those seen in people with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a fatal brain condition caused by infectious proteins called prions. Only a few hundred cases of vCJD have ever been reported, and most were tied to consumption of contaminated beef in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s. (In cows, vCJD is commonly called "mad cow disease.")
But in this case, the man had another dietary habit that could have raised his risk for vCJD: His family said he liked to hunt, and it was reported that he had eaten squirrel brains, said Dr. Tara Chen, a medical resident at Rochester Regional Health and lead author of the report. It's unclear if the man consumed the entire squirrel brain or just squirrel meat that was contaminated with parts of squirrel brain, Chen said
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ken D. Portland_ken
on Saturday, October 20, 2018 – 03:07 pm
The original "mad cow disease
The original "mad cow disease" was discovered by western medicine by doctors visiting remote tribes in the highlands of New Guinea. It wasn't squirrel brains they were eating.
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on Saturday, October 20, 2018 – 06:08 pm
My cat Zeeba enjoyed munching
My cat Zeeba enjoyed munching the Neck-glands of Squirrels and Chipmunks he'd kill (thyroid ?) but had no taste for the rodent brains.
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on Sunday, October 21, 2018 – 10:22 am
Wake up to find out that you
Wake up to find out that you have the brains of a squirrel.
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on Sunday, October 21, 2018 – 03:43 pm
Don't eat brains.
Don't eat brains.