s that scientist and doctors did not have the answer for. Still the Mad Cow Disease was supposedly not related to vCJD at that time. After March of 1996 United Kingdom Health Secretary, Stephen Dorrel announced there was a correlation between the Mad Cow and vCJD, followed by a ban of export on British beef, and a slaughter of all cattle over the age of 30 months. This was a result of the expensive test that had to be conducted on the cattle, and they could not afford to do it on every single one.(Affected Areas) By the year 2000, France banned beef from restaurants and school canteens, then Italy bans adult cows and beef from France. Then the first case of Mad Cow Disease is detected in Spain and Germany. Both countries ordered for testing on all cattle to help relieve public fears. By the end of the year 2000, the entire country of France had also come down with the disease. In fact, it was worst than expected, with one in every five hundreth cow infected. Then, in the beginning 2001, Belgium and Italy had been hit with this horrible disease.The only good notion that has come out of this event is that the United States has barely noticed an outbreak, just from a few possible areas like Texas. None of the areas in the United States have been confirmed with the possible outbreak. This could be due to the fact that the United States does not import any beef from Europe. Furthermore, the United States is not supposed to feed their livestock ground up bone from animals like the European states do. These are some of the possible reason why the outbreak hasn’t reached the United States.Mad Cow Disease fits the profile that might cause hysteria, because it has traumatic results and affects the brain consistency and intelligence content of it’s victim. The media has the burden of a field-day frenzy, with the people infected and dying from this disease….imagine if the outbreak did spread into every fourth person. Of...
