11.   Scientists have reassured the public that eating cloned beef is safe, but people are still wary.

12.   The fact that the disease may have leapt the barrier once, from sheep to cattle, is cited by those who raise the alarm about eating beef.

13.   Then, it incited angry confusion five days later when its scientists concluded that the risk from eating beef was minute.

14.   Under the circumstances, he said, not eating beef seems like a logical reaction.

15.   What is still not known for sure is whether the disease can also be contracted by eating beef from infected cattle.

16.   Britain claims there is no human health risk from eating beef and reacted angrily last week when the EU refused to lift the export ban.

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

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

19.   Eating beef from cattle infected with mad cow disease is thought to trigger a fatal human variant of the illness.