Chimpanzees Released After 30 Years Of Testing. 
Brace Yourself For Smiles.
i remember the late great Dr. Gibbs at NIH whom studied transmissible 
spongiform encephalopathy prion disease his whole life, and was a great 
scientist, i remember him saying how bad he hated using chimps for research. he 
grew very close to the chimps, and it disturbed him greatly. i always thought we 
should use humans instead of chimps. i.e. death row inmates. expose them, study 
them, compensate their families. this would indeed put to end the controversy 
and excuse of 'oh, chimps are not humans, study does not hold water' type 
mentality. of course it would be a voluntary program. 
A scientist’s change of heart Years later when author Richard Rhodes 
interviewed Clarence J. Gibbs for his 1997 book on the history of spongiform 
encephalopathies, he reports that Gibbs expressed distress over infecting 
chimpanzees with deadly diseases: “Joe Gibbs came to hate using chimpanzees for 
medical experiments. The bright, engaging primates were too human. Gibbs 
[purportedly] gave up inoculating chimpanzees with lethal diseases years ago—‘I 
just couldn’t do it anymore,’ he says today.” (13)
why do we not want to do TSE transmission studies on chimpanzees $ 
snip... 
5. A positive result from a chimpanzee challenged severly would likely 
create alarm in some circles even if the result could not be interpreted for 
man. I have a view that all these agents could be transmitted provided a large 
enough dose by appropriate routes was given and the animals kept long enough. 
Until the mechanisms of the species barrier are more clearly understood it might 
be best to retain that hypothesis. 
snip... 
R. BRADLEY 
Wednesday, February 16, 2011 
IN CONFIDENCE SCRAPIE TRANSMISSION TO CHIMPANZEES 
IN CONFIDENCE
reference...
RB3.20
TRANSMISSION TO CHIMPANZEES
Subject: Re: Hello Dr. Gibbs........... 
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:14:18 –0500 
From: "Clarence J. Gibbs, Jr., Ph.D." 
To: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." 
References: 3a254430.9fb97284@wt.net 
Hi Terry: 
xxx E Stret N.E., Washington, D. C. 20002. 
Better shrimp and oysters than cards!!!! 
Have a happy holiday and thanks for all the information you bring to the 
screen. 
Joe Gibbs 
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009 
BSE-The Untold Story - joe gibbs and singeltary 1999 – 2009 
Thursday, February 14, 2013
The Many Faces of Mad Cow Disease Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy BSE and 
TSE prion disease 
Friday, February 11, 2011 
Atypical/Nor98 Scrapie Infectivity in Sheep Peripheral Tissues 
Monday, April 22, 2013 
North Carolina Senate bill S.B. 648 could be health risk and risk your 
children again to mad cow type disease BSE TSE prion disease 
Letter: Senate bill could be health risk 
Thursday, February 21, 2013 
National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center Cases Examined January 
16, 2013 
16 YEAR OLD SPORADIC FFI ? 
Monday, January 14, 2013 
Gambetti et al USA Prion Unit change another highly suspect USA mad cow 
victim to another fake name i.e. sporadic FFI at age 16 CJD Foundation goes 
along with this BSe 
Monday, December 31, 2012 
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease and Human TSE Prion Disease in Washington State, 
2006–2011-2012 
Tuesday, December 25, 2012 
CREUTZFELDT JAKOB TSE PRION DISEASE HUMANS END OF YEAR REVIEW DECEMBER 25, 
2012 
Tuesday, June 26, 2012 
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease Human TSE report update North America, Canada, 
Mexico, and USDA PRION UNIT as of May 18, 2012 
type determination pending Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (tdpCJD), is on the 
rise in Canada and the USA 
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 
MEXICO IS UNDER or MIS DIAGNOSING CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE AND OTHER PRION 
DISEASE SOME WITH POSSIBLE nvCJD 
*** The discovery of previously unrecognized prion diseases in both humans 
and animals (i.e., Nor98 in small ruminants) demonstrates that the range of 
prion diseases might be wider than expected and raises crucial questions about 
the epidemiology and strain properties of these new forms. We are investigating 
this latter issue by molecular and biological comparison of VPSPr, GSS and 
Nor98. 
VARIABLY PROTEASE-SENSITVE PRIONOPATHY IS TRANSMISSIBLE ...price of prion 
poker goes up again $ 
OR-10: Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy is transmissible in bank 
voles 
Romolo Nonno,1 Michele Di Bari,1 Laura Pirisinu,1 Claudia D’Agostino,1 
Stefano Marcon,1 Geraldina Riccardi,1 Gabriele Vaccari,1 Piero Parchi,2 Wenquan 
Zou,3 Pierluigi Gambetti,3 Umberto Agrimi1 1Istituto Superiore di Sanità; Rome, 
Italy; 2Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, Università di Bologna; Bologna, 
Italy; 3Case Western Reserve University; Cleveland, OH USA 
Background. Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr) is a recently 
described “sporadic”neurodegenerative disease involving prion protein 
aggregation, which has clinical similarities with non-Alzheimer dementias, such 
as fronto-temporal dementia. Currently, 30 cases of VPSPr have been reported in 
Europe and USA, of which 19 cases were homozygous for valine at codon 129 of the 
prion protein (VV), 8 were MV and 3 were MM. A distinctive feature of VPSPr is 
the electrophoretic pattern of PrPSc after digestion with proteinase K (PK). 
After PK-treatment, PrP from VPSPr forms a ladder-like electrophoretic pattern 
similar to that described in GSS cases. The clinical and pathological features 
of VPSPr raised the question of the correct classification of VPSPr among prion 
diseases or other forms of neurodegenerative disorders. Here we report 
preliminary data on the transmissibility and pathological features of VPSPr 
cases in bank voles. 
Materials and Methods. Seven VPSPr cases were inoculated in two genetic 
lines of bank voles, carrying either methionine or isoleucine at codon 109 of 
the prion protein (named BvM109 and BvI109, respectively). Among the VPSPr cases 
selected, 2 were VV at PrP codon 129, 3 were MV and 2 were MM. Clinical 
diagnosis in voles was confirmed by brain pathological assessment and western 
blot for PK-resistant PrPSc (PrPres) with mAbs SAF32, SAF84, 12B2 and 9A2. 
Results. To date, 2 VPSPr cases (1 MV and 1 MM) gave positive transmission 
in BvM109. Overall, 3 voles were positive with survival time between 290 and 588 
d post inoculation (d.p.i.). All positive voles accumulated PrPres in the form 
of the typical PrP27–30, which was indistinguishable to that previously observed 
in BvM109 inoculated with sCJDMM1 cases. 
In BvI109, 3 VPSPr cases (2 VV and 1 MM) showed positive transmission until 
now. Overall, 5 voles were positive with survival time between 281 and 596 
d.p.i.. In contrast to what observed in BvM109, all BvI109 showed a GSS-like 
PrPSc electrophoretic pattern, characterized by low molecular weight PrPres. 
These PrPres fragments were positive with mAb 9A2 and 12B2, while being negative 
with SAF32 and SAF84, suggesting that they are cleaved at both the C-terminus 
and the N-terminus. Second passages are in progress from these first successful 
transmissions. 
Conclusions. Preliminary results from transmission studies in bank voles 
strongly support the notion that VPSPr is a transmissible prion disease. 
Interestingly, VPSPr undergoes divergent evolution in the two genetic lines of 
voles, with sCJD-like features in BvM109 and GSS-like properties in BvI109. 
The discovery of previously unrecognized prion diseases in both humans and 
animals (i.e., Nor98 in small ruminants) demonstrates that the range of prion 
diseases might be wider than expected and raises crucial questions about the 
epidemiology and strain properties of these new forms. We are investigating this 
latter issue by molecular and biological comparison of VPSPr, GSS and Nor98. 
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 
VARIABLY PROTEASE-SENSITVE PRIONOPATHY IS TRANSMISSIBLE, price of prion 
poker goes up again $ 
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy in the UK: a retrospective review 
1991–2008 
Brain (2013) 136 (4): 1102-1115. doi: 10.1093/brain/aws366 
Sunday, March 31, 2013 
Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease CJD worlds youngest documented victim, 11 years 
old, shall we pray 
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 
Dissociation between Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE) 
Infectivity and Proteinase K-Resistant PrPSc Levels in Peripheral Tissue from a 
Murine Transgenic Model of TSE Disease
*** Terry S. Singeltary Sr. Publications TSE prion disease Peer Review ***
Diagnosis and Reporting of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Singeltary, Sr et al. JAMA.2001; 285: 733-734. Vol. 285 No. 6, February 14, 2001 JAMA
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http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2014/12/terry-s-singeltary-sr-publications-tse.html
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