91.   Some scientists suspect the disease causes a similar fatal ailment, called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, in people who eat infected beef.

92.   The ban was imposed in March amid public fears that a human brain-wasting disease could be contracted from eating tainted beef.

93.   The bovine illness, apparently spread by eating infected beef, is thought to cause the fatal human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

94.   The disease has been linked to deaths among humans who ate contaminated beef.

95.   The fatal human variant, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, is believed to be caused in humans by eating infected beef.

96.   The EU Agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler increased British ire last weekend by publicly stating he would be happy to eat British beef, but that the ban must stay.

97.   The Health Department said people generally become ill two to four days after eating tainted beef.

98.   They had eaten tainted beef.

99.   There is less surgery, and many Chinese stop eating beef for fear of offending the Hindu ghosts.

100.   Three French people have died of the disease, which scientists say is contracted from eating tainted beef.