- EDMONTON -- A new book could
add to the woes of the mad cow ravaged beef industry.
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- The book is called Dying for a Hamburger: Modern Meat
Processing and the Epidemic of Alzheimer's Disease.
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- It was written by Toronto coroner Dr. Murray Waldman
and Marjorie Lamb and it blames hamburgers for an "epidemic of Alzheimer's
disease."
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- Waldman argues hamburger is the main source of prions,
a type of malformed protein which trigger the disease in the aged.
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- But Canada's leading expert on prions says Waldman doesn't
know what he's talking about.
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- Dr. David Westaway of the University of Toronto says
Alzheimer's isn't a prion disease, and adds that experiments have shown
it isn't transmissible.
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- Waldman also quotes the studies of University of Indiana
epidemiologist Dr. Hugh Hendrie.
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- But Hendrie says his work has been misinterpreted.
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- Despite such denunciations, Waldman insists his science
is strong.
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- The book, published by McClelland and Stewart, will hit
stores in the next two weeks.
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