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Published online 1 September 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050829-17
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British duo probes origin of mad cow disease
Did human remains in food spawn the infection in cattle?
Human remains in cattle feed could have caused the first case of mad cow disease, two UK researchers propose. The hypothesis seeks to answer lingering questions about the fatal infection, which has affected 180,000 cows in Britain alone since the mid-1980s, and has gone on to cause more than 100 deaths in humans.
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