91.   For years, there have been news reports about deaths from mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

92.   Germany, which had previously issued warnings about the spread of mad cow disease in Britain, said it is considering a ban.

93.   Government officials say there is no scientific evidence that mad cow disease can be transmitted through milk or other dairy products.

94.   He acknowledged that mad cow disease had influenced his move.

95.   He is Dr. Richard F. Marsh of the University of Wisconsin in Madison, who has done research on a disease of mink that resembles mad cow disease.

96.   He got interested in its subject, fatal brain diseases, before there were any reports about human beings dying of mad cow disease in England.

97.   He said practices that led to the mad cow outbreak in the U.K. are common in the U.S.

98.   Her role in calming public fears over mad cow disease is however likely to be less critical than that of Kuenast.

99.   I got a milky white ribbon for mad cow disease.

100.   However, she confirmed that quarantined sheep in Vermont were infected with either mad cow or scrapie, a variation of the disease found in sheep.