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Although Heather A. Bickel, a receptionist at Hi Country Beef Jerkey, the largest company in Lincoln, which employs about 45 people, says everyone in the town basically knows their neighbors, Bickel says she doesn't know of anyone that knows Kaczynski...
...message: The "mad-cow disease" that has killed thousands of British cattle over the past decade represents no danger to humans. Just last December Prime Minister John Major insisted that there was "no scientific evidence" that the fatal brain infection, called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), could be transmitted through beef products...
...opposite. The commission had discovered a new strain of a deadly disorder called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and suggested that the likely cause for its spread was BSE. The announcement sent a wave of alarm across Europe. By week's end all but two European Union countries had banned British beef, and nations as far away as New Zealand and Singapore had done the same, cutting off trade that earns Britain $780 million a year. The U.S. has not permitted the import of British beef since 1989, when questions about its safety were first raised...
Even as he reported the new findings, British Health Minister Stephen Dorrell insisted that any danger from eating beef was minuscule. Officials point out that the number of infected cows is down from 36,000 in 1992 to 14,000 in 1995 because contaminated feedstuffs have been banned...
Though Pattison added that current beef eaters run little risk, the news cast a pall over Britain's traditional eating habits. Butchers said last week there was little call for beef cuts. At the Strand branch of Angus Steak Houses Ltd., in central London, the management was offering a special: just $10 for a sirloin steak with French fries and mushrooms. During a busy Friday lunch hour, the offer had few takers...