Poor Cow
Tim Radford, 5 September 1996
Lethal Legacy: BSE – The Search for Truth
by Stephen Dealler.
Bloomsbury, 307 pp., £5.99, April 1996,9780747529408 Show More
by Stephen Dealler.
Bloomsbury, 307 pp., £5.99, April 1996,
Agriculture and Health Committees. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD): Recent Developments
HMSO, 149 pp., £17, May 1996,0 10 237796 0 Show More
HMSO, 149 pp., £17, May 1996,
Beyond Beef: The Rise and Fall of the Cattle Culture
by Jeremy Rifkin.
Thorsons, 353 pp., £8.99, June 1996,0 7225 2979 1 Show More
by Jeremy Rifkin.
Thorsons, 353 pp., £8.99, June 1996,
“... a link has been proven. But there was the sound of chickens coming home to roost. People like Stephen Dealler, a microbiologist at Burnley General Hospital, had been pointing out publicly for most of the Nineties that there was always a solid chance that a spongiform encephalopathy was transmissible, so it should always have been assumed that humans ... ”