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April 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments,
compiled by the editors of HealthDay:
Case of Mad Cow Disease Discovered in
California
A fourth case of mad cow disease has been diagnosed in the United
States, this time in California, but it poses no danger to human health,
U.S. Agriculture Department officials said Tuesday.
“There is really no cause for alarm here with regard to this animal [a
dairy cow],” USDA Chief Veterinary Officer John Clifford said during an
afternoon news conference.
According to the Associated Press, Clifford did not say when the
disease was discovered or exactly where the dairy cow had been raised. He
said the animal was at a rendering plant in central California when mad
cow disease was diagnosed during routine testing.
Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), can be
fatal to humans who eat the tainted beef, but the wire service reported
that the World Health Organization has said that tests show humans cannot
be infected by drinking milk from diseased animals. In people, eating
contaminated meat is linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a rare
and deadly nerve disease.
There have been three confirmed cases of mad cow disease in the United
States, in Washington state in 2003, in Texas in 2005 and in Alabama in
2006, the AP reported.
Only a handful of cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease have been
confirmed in people living in the United States, according to the
AP, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has
said those were linked to meat products in the United Kingdom and Saudi
Arabia.
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Report Challenges VA Claims on Speed of Mental
Health Care
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs does not provide mental health
care to veterans as quickly as it claims, according to an inspector
general’s report.
While the VA says that 95 percent of first-time patients seeking mental
health care in 2011 received an evaluation within the department’s goal of
14 days, the VA Office of Inspector General found that only half of
patients were seen in that time frame, the Associated Press
reported.
A majority of patients waited an average of about 50 days before they
underwent a full evaluation.
The VA also says that 95 percent of new mental health patients in 2011
began treatment within 14 days of their desired date. But the inspector
general found that this was true for only 64 percent of patients and the
rest had to wait an average of 40 days, the AP reported.
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Teens Getting Drunk on Hand
Sanitizer
Emergency rooms in Los Angeles are treating teens who suffer alcohol
poisoning after they try to get drunk on liquid hand sanitizers, which
contain 62 percent ethyl alcohol.
In the last few months, six such cases have been seen in two San
Fernando Valley emergency departments, according to the Los Angeles
Times, the Associated Press reported.
Some of the teens used salt to separate the alcohol from the sanitizer,
resulting in a powerful drink similar to a shot of hard liquor. The teens
can find distillation instructions on the Internet.
While there have only been a few cases so far, it could signal a
dangerous trend, according to county public health toxicology expert Cyrus
Rangan, the AP reported.
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Meds Helping Many Overweight Americans Control
Cholesterol: Study
Despite the fact that two-thirds of American adults are overweight,
only 13 percent have high total cholesterol, according to a Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention report released Tuesday.
Experts suggest this discrepancy is largely due to the fact that so
many American adults take cholesterol-lowering drugs, the Associated
Press reported.
The CDC findings are from interviews and blood tests of about 6,000
adults in 2009 and 2010.
A federal government goal of having no more than 17 percent of adults
with high total cholesterol was achieved more than 10 years ago for men
and about five years ago for women, the AP reported.
Too much cholesterol — a fat-like substance in the blood — increases
the risk of heart disease.
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