THOUSANDS more people could die from the human equivalent of mad cow disease
if Britain’s sheep turn out to be infected with the disease, epidemiologists
warn this week. They say that sheep offal, and sheep older than six months,
should be banned from human consumption to ensure that any such infection cannot
pass to people in the future.
But British authorities have still not managed to establish whether sheep are
carrying BSE. Until they do, any further restrictions on an already stricken
meat industry seem unlikely.
Sheep can catch BSE by eating infected feed, and they carry the infection in…
