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...British public was thus doubly stunned last week when a government-appointed scientific commission indicated just the 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...
Since its first appearance in Britain in 1985, mad-cow disease has killed more than 150,000 head of cattle. Some scientists have maintained for years that BSE could cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which generally affects older people, causing symptoms similar to Alzheimer's. Last week's announcement was made by the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit, in Edinburgh. Press reports identified 10 victims of Creutzfeldt-Jakob, all under the age of 42. They most likely contracted the disease through contact with BSE. Eight of them have died, and the remaining two are gravely ill. All 10 are believed...
LONDON: Germany, Finland, Singapore and New Zealand joined a growing list of countries banning the import of British beef, following an announcement by the British Health Secretary Thursday that the deaths of 10 people from Creuztfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), an incurable brain condition, may be linked to "mad cow disease", a bovine brain sickness that has been infecting British herds for the past decade. France, Belgium, Sweden, Portugal and the Netherlands announced the ban Thursday. The ban will result in a severe blow to British beef and dairy farmers. France called for a meeting yesterday of the European Union...
...Justice Department seeks to strip the citizenship of individuals who served in Nazi death camps. A case in point is Jack Reimer, an otherwise inconspicuous 74-year-old potato-chip deliveryman in Carmel, New York. U.S. authorities now believe that in 1941 and 1942 Jakob Reimer was a Nazi guard at the Trawniki SS training camp in Poland. Investigators claim that under interrogation last year he not only admitted having witnessed other Nazis massacre Jews but also acknowledged that he had opened fire into a ravine filled with the bodies of 50 Jewish men already gunned down by other guards...
...from the Communist Party. His new career: working as a crane operator with a road gang. Ruml's wife Jirina Hrabkova had been removed as the moderator of a popular radio program, and was selling sausages at the Prague Zoo. Worst of all, their two sons Jan, 17, and Jakob, 15, were hounded out of high school and denied a university education...