Mango2016
20-12-17, 21:57
HI everyone, I'm a 23-year old female from the USA. I'm a veterinary student who happens to have anxiety, which really doesn't help when you have to learn about some of these crazy diseases....A couple weeks ago we learned about variant CJD and it scared the heck out of me. I traveled to England in December of 2012 for 2 weeks with my family for a Christmas trip. We drove all around the UK. We definitely ate a lot of beef when we were there...I'm worried that my family and I are going to get the disease and that we doomed ourselves by eating beef in an endemic country for BSE and vCJD. I cannot stop thinking about it. I read that the incubation period can be years...on average 10, which means I would have about 5 more years to live. It's just been consuming my life and every day I feel like the disease is coming. Has anyone else had this fear? For those of you that live in England, is it a big problem now? Are people worried about it and avoid meat there?
Thanks so much
Thanks so much