ANTC68H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Risk Society, Endocannibalism, Scrapie
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Antc68 lecture 8: anthropogenesis of disease: tses and vcjd. Trade related inspections of intellectual property; global body that recognizes patents for ideas or even drugs; protection against people stealing ideas. Arv patents were protected meaning no one could make something similar, 20 years pharm. companies had a monopoly (distrtib/prod. /cost) when trips challenged and generics prod. , rates went down and people w/ aids could live longer. Proteins that have become abnormal in structure in terms of fold (prions) - cause other proteins inthe brain to also become abnormal (*not infectious in terms of multiplying but in this way); all of the diseases are fatal. Brain material then contracts where there are spaces b/c of the prions clumping together thus spongy. Vcjd: new variant b/c acquired through consumption of contaminated food products (beef) and pop. effected is younger than those in cjd cjd happens sporadically. Women and children are the main risk groups.
