91. Anthrax is endemic among livestock in certain parts of India, and cases have been reported of people contracting the disease after handling infected animals or consuming infected meat. 92. Brains, other organs and nerve tissue are considered especially dangerous from infected animals. 93. Britain proposed to trace cattle to their original herds and slaughter or quarantine those that had come in contact with infected animals. 94. BSE is believed to spread by recycling meat and bones from infected animals back into cattle feed. 95. But Orenga said the incident was blown out of proportion because the meat was not from the infected animal but from others in the same herd. 96. Cattle eating meat-and-bone meal from infected animals are believed to have caused the spread of the disease in Europe. 97. Consumption of beef from infected animals may cause variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, a potentially fatal neurological disorder. 98. Eating meat from infected animals is thought to be the cause of a similar deadly ailment in humans known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. 99. Eating the brain or nerve tissue from infected animals is linked to the fatal human variety of mad cow disease. 100. Even trucks carrying infected animals can spread the disease. |