61.   Chronic wasting disease is similar to mad cow disease in beef cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in people.

62.   Chronic wasting disease, akin to mad cow disease, has spread through deer and elk in Colorado, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Montana.

63.   Clapton, who had sworn off beef in his native England because of mad cow disease, savored an American hamburger at a local restaurant.

64.   Common sense is the political equivalent of mad cow disease.

65.   Consumers and officials on the continent are still reeling from the discovery of isolated cases of mad cow disease over the last few months.

66.   Cows have been getting a lot of bad press lately, what with mad cow disease in England.

67.   Creutzfeldt-Jakob is part of a group of human and animal diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a group that includes mad cow disease.

68.   Currently, fear of mad cow disease has led U.S. blood banks to sharply curtail the use of blood donated in Europe or by Americans who have lived there.

69.   Despite stringent measures to protect people and cattle from mad cow disease, experts in and out of government say more can be done.

70.   Detwiler said Wednesday that the government was still uncertain whether the animals had mad cow disease or a more common and less dangerous sheep illness called scrapie.