31.   The nearest human equivalent is Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, CJD.

32.   The outbreak of the brain-wasting cattle ailment, known as BSE or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, in Britain has been linked to a fatal human equivalent.

33.   Two people are known to have died in France from the human equivalent of the disease, which has no known treatment.

34.   The experts had met to assess new British evidence suggesting a possible link between BSE, known as mad cow disease, and its fatal human equivalent, CJD.