AR-News: (US)Americans looking mad cow in the face

[Animalconcerns]

Americans are having to confront the spectre that bovine spongiform
encephalopathy (BSE), which ravaged the British beef industry and crossed
over into the human population with devastating consequences, may have
invaded their own shores undetected - or under the veil of a government
cover-up.

The latest BSE scare, which is casting a shadow of fear and suspicion on a
small town in southern New Jersey, has prompted two senators to demand an
official study by medical experts from the Centres for Disease Control
(CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.

They were responding to the possibility that America may indeed be on the
brink of the same trauma suffered by Britain after the first cases of BSE
were discovered in herds in 1986 and when, 10 years later, people began to
die from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), known to be caused by
ingesting BSE-contaminated meat.

full story:
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=117&art_id=vn20040411132900380C719533&set_id=1

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