1.   As far as anyone knows, only the cattle disease has infected people, who are believed to have contracted it by eating meat from diseased animals.

2.   BSE was spread through cattle feed containing processed parts from diseased animals.

3.   Officials in Nebraska, who knew of diseased animals in the southwest part of the state, said they are now in the northwest.

4.   Samples have been found in a diseased animal in Kuwait and the pest has also been detected in Iran, FAO said.

5.   The danger lies in the practice of feeding meat and bone meal derived from diseased animals to other animals destined to be consumed.

6.   The disadvantage of inoculations is that standard antibody tests cannot distinguish between the antibodies created in a diseased animal and antibodies created in an inoculated one.

7.   When a diseased animal is found, the entire herd is destroyed.

8.   Animal welfare must be legislated and the council should set up a bureau to handle destruction of diseased animals, he said.

9.   Animals are believed to get the brain-wasting disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, through eating the brain or nervous system tissue from diseased animals.

10.   Anthrax is a severe infectious disease which kills suddenly, and is usually contracted through diseased animals or animal products.