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Sorry this is so late, Maryse. I missed this message. Yes, of course. All of these diseases (kuru, C-J, scrapie, Mad Cow) are spongiform encephalopathies. The point is that no one at the time--even once they discovered the connection and the etiology--could put their fingers on the agent of disease. They chalked it off to a virus, which is what many people do when they don't know what else to blame a disease upon. Scott At 11:27 PM 7/22/2006, M.Schild wrote: >: > > Yes. Lindenbaum discovered the practice of endocannibalism prior to her > > book being published in 1974. That's over thirty years ago. No one knew > > what prions were yet, > > >Yes but even then, many people made a link with Ceutzfeld-Jacob syndrome >Maryse cg JOhn 77,17 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] >In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn