11.   Japan uncovered a fourth likely case of mad cow disease Saturday, the first since an outbreak late last year triggered widespread fear of tainted beef.

12.   Tainted beef products are suspected of causing about two dozen reported cases, almost all in Britain, of the variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

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

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

15.   The mad cow crisis reappeared two months ago after an increase in French cases and reports that tainted beef might have made it to supermarket shelves.

16.   They had eaten tainted beef.

17.   The women was found dead in her apartment Sunday morning, a day after the cow tested positive at a local university and rekindled worries about tainted beef.

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