21.   Heino Diringer, a biochemist and virologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, believes humans CAN contract CJD from eating contaminated beef.

22.   Hindus, for example, do not eat beef because it is forbidden by their religion.

23.   Human cases have been linked to eating affected beef.

24.   However, two dozen cases of human disease in the United Kingdom are believed to be linked to eating tainted beef.

25.   I frequently go to Britain, and I have eaten beef there.

26.   If we eat beef, will we sicken?

27.   If you must eat beef, the USDA suggests eating muscle meat, like steaks or roasts.

28.   It came ashore with immigrants from Hamburg, who had long since acquired the habit of eating ground beef, raw with onion juice, from nomadic Tatar tribes.

29.   It would be unthinkable for him to eat beef.