Violin and cello strings made of animal intestine might transmit Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, if you ate enough of them. [Telegraph via Tim Cavanaugh, Reason]
Violin and cello strings made of animal intestine might transmit Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, if you ate enough of them. [Telegraph via Tim Cavanaugh, Reason]
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Crap! Well, it’s back to eating brass instruments for me.
When gut strings are outlawed, only outlaws will have gut strings.
Is there nothing too petty for these loons?
What will they ban next, String Theory? It is obvious that the EU bureaucrats will never have to worry about coming down with a brain disease.
My husband and I can’t give blood because we were in Germany during the period from 1980 to 1990 and therefore we might have, as Denny Crane puts it, “the Mad Cow.”
Given the EU’s recent woes, there’s a joke to be made about fiddling while Rome burns (I just can’t quite make it, so I leave it to your imagination).
@kimsch: I understand that. I was in the UK from ’94-’98. I and the rest of my family are banned from giving blood. That’s a pity, because I was a regular donor.
As for gut strings, maybe they can go back to cat… they don’t carry Mad Cow or C-J to the best of my knowledge.
Anyway, the ban on gut strings is ridiculous. Every study on C-J has reported on nerve tissue being the conduit. Intestines are not nerve-rich tissue.
@L.C. – you do realize the brass instruments may have a significant amount of lead
It’s good to know that European bureaucrats can be just as stupid as American ones.