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...latest panic over bovine spongiform encephalopathy and its brain-wasting human variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, erupted late last year. The first trigger was the recall of possibly tainted beef-believed to be the main vector of human infection-by three French supermarket chains. Then came reports that Germany, Spain and Italy, previously untouched by the epidemic, had discovered their first bse cases. "I lost between 50% and 60% of my customers overnight," says Paris butcher Alain Lamarchand...
...first and most basic underscored lesson is that Americans are frustrated with government. This angle can be put into any story, pitting an innocent David against the Goliath-like government. A closely-related variant of this first rule--one that should catch the eye of any college student--is the talk of how youth are divorced from politics...
...weird thing about the health panic rampaging across Europe is that it has almost nothing to do with the prevalence of the health risk itself. Only three people in continental Europe are known to have died from the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the last decade. Despite the recent rise in the number of bovine cases, the chances of encountering a mad cow on the Continent are tiny: since 1990 the incidence of bse in cows in Europe is fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged...
...weird thing about the health panic rampaging across Europe is that it has almost nothing to do with the prevalence of the health risk itself. Only three people in continental Europe are known to have died from the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the last decade. Despite the recent rise in the number of bovine cases, the chances of encountering a mad cow on the Continent are tiny: since 1990 the incidence of bse in cows in Europe is fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged...
...first cases appeared in humans; the disease was re-christened yet again as a "new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" (VCJD) because it resembled an existing illness whose cause is unknown. The new disease was probably caused by eating beef containing brain or spinal tissue from mad cows, since human cases invariably turned up in countries with BSE problems...