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New Crisis In UK - Is F/M Killing
Spreading Mad Cow Disease?
Paul Harris and Jason Burke
The Observer
http://www.observer.co.uk/
5-20-1
Ministers have summoned their top scientific advisers
to an emergency meeting as fears mount that ash and
the buried carcasses of cows slaughtered during the
foot and mouth epidemic could be spreading the deadly
human version of BSE.
On Thursday new evidence from tests at hundreds of
sites where cattle have been burnt or buried will be
reviewed by experts. Ministers are concerned that
proteins known as 'prions' which cause
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and are found in
BSE-infected meat may have polluted the water supply
or the air. The hastily convened meeting shows the
depth of the Ministers' concern.
Members of the committee have confirmed to The
Observer that the mass slaughter programme posed a
risk of infection from prions. 'There is certainly a
risk,
but we do not know how big or small it is,' said
Professor Harriet Kimbell.
Another committee member, veterinary surgeon Peter
Jinman, said he had been called early last week and
told of the meeting 'specifically to look at this issue
of
possible contamination'.
The problem lies with cows that are older than 30
months and may have developed BSE. Though
enormous efforts have been made to stamp out the
disease in Britain, experts believe that nearly 2 per
cent of cattle are still infected.
Usually the infected cattle have special rules governing
the disposal of their carcasses, but during the foot and
mouth epidemic whole herds were slaughtered and
disposed of without testing.
Environmental health officials in Devon, one of the
areas hardest hit by foot and mouth, told The Observer
that in many instances piles of ash remain unburied. In
some cases the ash has lain exposed for up to three
months. That raises the risk of prions being blown
away on the wind or washed into local streams and
rivers.
Nicholas Mann, a senior commercial services manager
for Torridge District Council, said there were up to 40
ash pyres in his district alone. Adverts in local
newspapers have been placed asking residents within
two kilometres of a pyre to come forward to have their
water supplies tested for ash contamination.
Aside from prions, other possible contaminations
include bacteria such as E.coli and campylobacter,
which are harmful to humans. 'It is a worry and we are
seeking advice from our local health authority on
communicable disease,' Mann said.
A spokesman from the Environment Agency said that
routine tests were continuing. She said that all ash was
disposed of after assessment of potential health and
environmental risks.
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