On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:46:10 EDT, Holly Krahe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>> >...       In the wild and especially out west, chronic
>> >wasting disease is spreading fast. Northeastern Colorado
>> >documented its first case in 1981. By the mid-1990s,
>> >samplings of mule deer brains showed 3% to 4% testing
>> >positive for CWD. Within a few years, the rate was 8%, and
>> >now Larimer County, the center of the endemic area, has a
>> >15% rate of infection among mule deer. It's also being found
>> >in deer and elk in Wyoming. ...

This is an alarming high rate.

In UK, there were several 100,000s of deaths from mad cow disease.
But over here in bavaria only a few single cases were found, mostly from
angus, galloway or scottish highland cattle which were imported from calves
from UK.
Still the nervousity was high.
For this reason whole herds of these amable teddy-bear-like nature cattle
were killed.
:-(

Amadeus S.