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To: Chip McVickar who wrote (2220)	8/29/2001 12:51:56 PM
From: Doo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12411

Here's the crux of the article in my view, Chip, and I think the entire article says absolutely nothing about US BSE/TSE/Scrapie/CWD. "This raises the possibility of a more complicated pas de deux between the two species. Mad cow may have originated, as the standard theory suggests, from age-old scrapie after British cows fed on infected sheep. But the new possibility is that the BSE variant then passed back into sheep feeding on infected cows, and then to humans who ate mutton, not beef. "Certainly some such scenario is needed to explain the eccentric cycling up of a British epidemic even as nothing similar has befallen other BSE-infected countries. Mad cow the disease may turn out to have a spotty presence almost everywhere. Mad cow the epidemic, along with its small accompanying retinue of human illness cases, may be a freak product of British husbandry."