1.   In a few years the number of BSE infected cattle is expected to drastically fall.

2.   At first government officials assured the public that people could not get the brain disease from eating infected cattle.

3.   Because the disease is spread by a particularly resilient type of protein, a prion, even incineration is not a viable option for the remains of infected cattle.

4.   But his doctors say he appears to have the classic, spontaneous form of the disease, not the new version caused by eating beef from infected cattle.

5.   By then infected cattle had passed through Union Stock Yards in Chicago.

6.   If mad cow were discovered here, the infected cattle would be destroyed, and others in the herd would be quarantined.

7.   If they do represent the start of an epidemic caused when people ate infected cattle, the number of cases should soon explode, Brown said.

8.   In response to questions from Winfrey, Lyman talked about the potential for Americans being struck with the brain disease from infected U.S. cattle.

9.   In the study reported Tuesday, Dr. Bons and her colleagues fed a large portion of infected cattle brain to two young lemurs that had never before eaten meat.