1.   As far as anyone knows, only the cattle disease has infected people, who are believed to have contracted it by eating meat from diseased animals.

2.   There is no evidence that chronic wasting disease infects humans.

3.   When the disease infects the brain and spinal cord, it can be devastating.

4.   Wildlife experts became aware at the end of August that a strange disease was infecting the bird population, because birds were dying in large numbers.

5.   Pakdee said he will wait for a report from the World Health Organization on whether the cow disease can infect humans before deciding to lift the ban.

6.   German brown, cutthroat, brook and lake trout are less susceptible to the disease and are replacing the rainbow trout in many rivers.

7.   Fakhoury did not say what disease infected the animals.

8.   The Food and Agriculture Organization reports the disease has infected at least one million farm animals.

9.   The disease does not infect humans.

10.   The disease does not infect people.