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yet another article long on hysteria and supposition and damn all evidence.
A classic example is

Had the United States heeded experts and implemented a British-style ban on
feeding livestock to livestock, and tightened the ban further in 1996 when
humans began dying, the mad cow crisis in the United States could have been
averted. Instead, we now have mad cow disease in North America, calves in
the United States and Canada weaned on cattle blood, and the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC) quietly reviewing the mysterious deaths of young
Americans from sporadic CJD to see if the cause of death might be eating
U.S. mad cows.

For a start you don't have a crisis. You have no one ill, no cattle dying,
and if you had an outbreak like the UK outbreak you would have thousands of
cattle coming ill a week!

And in spite of this level of infection

and in spite of having taken no precautions for most of the epidemic

in the UK we have less than 20 a year dead, (as opposed to 100 who die from
falling out of bed) and the number is falling

If you want to save lives, lobby for safety rails around beds

Jim Webster