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My name is Christine Lord and I lost my only son to vCJD the human form of mad cows disease aged just 24 years old in 2007. I buried my only son just four days before Christmas at the same church I use to watch his nativity plays.
I want to inform mums on this site that vCJD has not gone away and continues to kill predominately young people in their teens and twenties on a regular basis. The youngest victims have been just twelve years of age. Many cases of vCJD are not being recorded or noted on official statistics, this falsely reassures the public that the disease has gone away.
There has been a previous discussion on BSE/vCJD regarding Kenneth Clarkes appointment as Lord Chancellor. I would also like to answer some of those comments too
Kenneth Clarke was health minister when the most infectious material from BSE cattle were being pumped into commercially prepared baby food, (cow and gate have admitted this from 1983-1988 in their jars of baby food, see website www.justiceforandy.com)
This lethal material brains,spinal cord was also extensively used in school meals, university food, and armed forces meals as well as bovine material from bse cows
Used in the manufacture of vaccines. ( these are named on the website) 2 million children in the UK were injected with vaccines sourced from cattle suffering from BSE.
Kenneth Clarkes deliberate decisions allowed this infectious material free reign for years in the human food and medicine chain. WHAT HAS THIS TO DO WITH MUMS IN 2010 ? Well you may well have been a child of the 1980s and 1990s who received and ingested this material. 129 children in the Uk many under the ages of 9 years old have lost a young mum or dad to vCJD. Young mothers in the death throes of Vcjd have given birth to several children, one of those infants born totally disabled is showing all the symptoms of vCJD. I am in constant contact with this family and the grandmother who cares for this child. This young girl has never walked, talked, eaten and is severely brain damaged. As her gran said ? Mother to child transmission vCJD has taken place.?
One of the current victims of Vcjd Dean Burrell from Kings Lynn is just 25 and is Dad to Charlie aged 18months and Chole aged 4. Dean played football and was a healthy young guy and was married in August 2009. He is now totally disabled, unable to move or feed himself?. dying of vCJD and in a hospice needing 24/7 care. BSE still affects UK herds and our blood supply is not screened for Vcjd.
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Kenneth Clarke, John Gummer and many ministers and officials whose duty of care was to protect the UK public during the 1980s and 1990s not only failed to do so but actively encouraged the use of MRM the most infectious bse material in foods that would feed our most vulnerable. VCJD has incubation periods of between 5 and 50 years so millions of us have been exposed to BSE and who knows now many more of us may die. Everyone over the age of 13 has eaten at least 50 BSE infected meals, veggies and strict Hindus have also died of Vcjd.
Some of us may never develop the disease but can carry it ?silently? and pass it onwards through blood and medical procedures. One blood donor who is alive and well has been found to have given blood to two people who have since developed vCJD. Professor John Collinge world expert vCJD told me in an one to one interview with BBC1 that ?Probably one in a thousand of the Uk population is carrying vCJD?.
This is the ticking health timebomb that Kenneth Clarke, John Gummer and those I name and shame have left us mums and the UK population. Surely this is criminal?
I know through my investigations that important evidence was withheld during the Phillips BSE inquiry and talking and in recorded interviews high ranking scientists who gave evidence told me witnesses were rehearsed and the coverup continues.
I have set up a campaign called www.justiceforandy.com to get justice for my son and all victims of vCJD to achieve accountability, responsibility for hundreds of unlawful deaths due to vCJD. I also want to prevent future and further deaths. Please log on and read the profiles of the ministers involved, if you click on to the documentarys page of the website you can watch the bbc1 prorgamme I helped to produce and film about my sons dying day, my confrontation with John Gummer and explanations of why Vcjd is a significant threat to all our families in 2010.
I urge members of mumsnet to join the campaign and the 7 million plus people who have contacted us, help us towards transparency openness and justice,help us to keep our families safe and the blood and food supply free of vCJD. On May 4th
we held a protest outside Downing Street which was covered by the media including BBC, radio and European television, many concerned mums and their children attended this demonstration. Dean Burrells family and many who have lost loveds ones to Vcjd also came along and talked about their experiences.
I am a freelance journalist, have no financial, political or corporate agenda the campaign is self funding and runs with the help of volunteers and members of the publics support?
?.I am also a mum who faces heartbreak every single day ?knowing my son needn?t have died?..I have a daughter Emma aged 20?who was just 16 when she watched her beloved older brother die horrifically of vCJD.
Anyone of you reading this could be me?..walking in my shoes?..my son could have been your family member?..so please don?t believe the government spin that ?vcjd is a rare disease and has gone away??one death is one death too many from a preventable disease? hundreds have died and hundreds more will die?(.Professor Hugh Pennigton Newsnight 17th December 2009)
And millions of us have been exposed to BSE?.
My Andrew was fussy with his food hardly ate meat, never smoked and was a wonderful young man with the world at his feet. He worked in London and had a blossoming career as a producer/ researcher in the media. In March 2007 he produced live radio programmes for a national station by December he was blind, deaf, quadriplegic unable to swallow or recognise his family. He ate school meals, had a few jars of commercially produced baby food, was vaccinated?..whilst Kenneth Clarke and John Gummer were reassuring me and the public that ?beef was safe? and that ?bse posed no threat to human health?. Behind closed doors Clarke, Gummer and those I name on the website were repeatedly warned of the lethal risks that BSE posed for human health. But their political careers and government policy came before my sons life and future and also every ones health and well being who is reading this on mumsnet.
When my beautiful boy lay dying he said to me ?Mum find out who did this
to me and expose them? and always thinking of others he also said ? This must never happen again?, I continue to honour those promises I gave my beloved boy.
Help me to keep you and your families safe?please log on and send me your comments, information and thoughts. ..help me to get justice for all victims of Vcjd all those young people and individuals who have been unlawfully killed by a man made UK manufactured disease.
With your support, a mothers love, a journalists nose for the truth and people power I am sure I will get justice for my Andy?and all those young people and innocent victims whose lives were wrecked and futures stolen??
Thank you Chrisitne x [email protected]