1.   But he cautioned that members of the public, already worried about the possibility of becoming ill from eating infected beef, should not overreact.

2.   Can humans catch a fatal disease by eating infected beef?

3.   Some scientists claim that eating infected beef is linked to contracting CJD.

4.   Stephen Dorrell, the U.K. health secretary, sought to reassure the public that children were unlikely to be at risk from eating infected beef.

5.   The greatest danger could be from infected beef.

6.   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.

7.   Britain maintained it had already taken adequate safeguards to protect against human health risks from infected beef products.

8.   But new research released Wednesday gave new evidence of a possible link between eating infected beef and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans.

9.   But new research released Wednesday gave fresh evidence of a possible link between eating infected beef and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans.

10.   Criticism from European Union officials last month forced Fischer to call on food producers to withdraw sausages from stores suspected of containing possibly infected beef.