Infected Cows May be the Cause of Crohn’s Disease |
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Approximately 500,000 people in the United States alone suffer with Crohn’s Disease. This debilitating and often chronic inflammatory disease of the bowel is most prevalent in young people in the 15 to 25 year-old range. Although doctors have often thought that Crohn’s occurs because of the body’s own immune system attacking itself, it now appears that Crohn’s may be the direct result of ingesting food product derived from MAP (Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis) infected cattle.
MAP is a pathogenic bacterium that causes Johne’s Disease in numerous animals including cattle. Recent tests have shown that MAP is still present even after pasteurization of milk from dairy cattle infected with Johne’s Disease. MAP also is contained in DNA and RNA probes of Crohn’s patients, and Crohn’s patients, when treated with the same drug therapy used in treating Johne’s Disease in cattle, go into remission.
Is it possible that chronic diarrhea and wasting, which are symptoms for both Johne’s Disease and Crohn’s, is the direct result of MAP? Recent studies indicate that this possibility is very real. If the same drug therapies work for both diseases, the logical conclusion is that MAP has got to be at the root of the problem.
The painful fissures and fistulas that often require surgery in Crohn’s patients may be the direct result of MAP in food products derived from cattle. Crohn’s is also associated with other health problems including arthritis and inflammation of the eyes and mouth as well as diseases of the liver.
As the spread of Johne’s Disease in cattle and the rise of Crohn’s in humans continue, we may no longer be able to ignore the possibility that many of our chronic illnesses are directly related to our ingestion of food products derived from infected animals.
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