Re: Bone meal
- To: <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Bone meal
- From: "* <t*@packet.net>
- Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 19:02:22 -0400
from: Margaret Lauterbach at mlaute@micron.net
>Wasn't it about a year ago that one of the TV news magazines reported some
>link between the use of bone meal and the transmission of "mad cow
>disease"? (In humans known as Kreutzfeld-Jakob (sp?) disease or vice
>versa). I use a dust mask when using bone meal. That's unpleasant, so I
>hope the verdict is that it is "a good thing." Margaret
You're exactly right. I believe some people w/ K-J had a use of
horticultural bone meal in common. The prions that are thought to be the
cause of these diseases are very durable.
Tom Miller
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