11.   Many scientists believe the cattle became infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the formal name for mad cow disease, by eating parts of sheep with a similar ailment.

12.   Similar ailments among other peacekeepers raised accusations that they were exposed to toxic waste or other hazardous material in Croatia.

13.   Scientists believe eating infected meat could cause a similar ailment in humans, the usually fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.

14.   Scrapie is a fatal neurological ailment similar to mad cow disease.

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

16.   Toru Sekiya, a neurologist in Tokyo, has said that since late March, the number of patients complaining of claustrophobia and similar ailments has doubled.

17.   At present, the mice are used in quality control tests on vaccines used to treat horse, pigs, cattle and sheep for tetanus and similar ailments.