World IN BRIEF : BRITAIN : More Warnings Link Beef, Human Illness
From Times Wire Reports
Three separate teams of scientists warned that people can probably contract Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) by eating beef infected with “mad cow disease.” They predicted there would be more cases among those who ate sausages and burgers in the 1980s. The warnings came in the first publication of the report that prompted the British government to admit possible links between beef and CJD, and in two letters to the respected Lancet medical journal.
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