61.   The beef export ban followed an announcement of a possible link between that disease in cattle, and a fatal brain ailment affecting humans.

62.   The best known TSE is mad cow disease, which has been linked with a variant of the fatal brain condition known as Cruetzfeldt-Jakob.

63.   The EU imposed the ban after the government announced in March that several humans probably caught a fatal brain disease from infected cattle.

64.   The EU imposed the ban in March after British officials acknowledged that a fatal human brain ailment may be linked to mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy.

65.   The disease has created enormous concern throughout Europe because mad cow disease has been linked to a fatal brain ailment in humans, known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.

66.   The disease, known medically as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has been linked to the fatal human brain ailment Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

67.   The fatal brain ailment has no known cause, cure or universally effective treatment, and no single diagnostic test exists.

68.   The disease was linked to a new strain of a fatal human brain ailment, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.

69.   The human variant of BSE is a fatal brain ailment known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

70.   The link between mad cow disease and a fatal brain disease in humans has caused a public health scare throughout Europe since last spring.