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Default How mad cow disease may have gotten into your hamburger, hot dogs and pizza toppings

pearl > writes

>Professor James Ironside told the BBC last night that the tests were
>not sensitive enough to identify all those infected with the human form
>of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE).


Big deal. If it's another 100 over 10 years or another 120, it's a very
very rare way to die.

>He said: "Because of the nature of the specimens used in the study
>we have had to employ a technique that is not as sensitive as other
>methods that are currently available so in some ways even this finding
>might be an under-representation of the actuality in terms of infection
>with BSE."


And of course he has no research institute to protect from funding cuts
.....

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