41.   The disease has raised concerns in every country where beef is eaten but so far no cases of mad cow disease have been detected in the United States.

42.   The only way we can eat beef will be ground into hamburger, cooked to cardboard.

43.   The panic was driven by fears that anyone might develop the deadly illness from eating infected beef, just as cattle got sick from the infected feed.

44.   They ate roast beef the night before the race, and scrambled eggs and bacon in the morning.

45.   Those who wanted to avoid risk altogether, for example, might stop eating beef.

46.   Though they still eat more beef than people in any other country, Argentines are exercising more and eating lighter and cheaper.

47.   Yukio Tsunoda, a cloning scientist at Kinki University, said that hormonal experiments on cattle breeding may be of more concern than the risks of eating cloned beef.

48.   A recent newspaper survey found that one in four Japanese has stopped eating beef because of the scare, and beef restaurants have reported slumping sales.

49.   A similar lack of information surrounding the mad cow crisis has caused consumers in many European countries, including Germany, Italy and Belgium, to stop eating beef.

50.   Although it has not been proven, health experts fear that people who have eaten contaminated beef might transmit the disease through donated blood.