1.   Mad cow disease is the common name for bovine spongiform encephalopathy, which can be contracted by eating comtaminated beef.

2.   Anthrax can be contracted by eating the flesh of infected animals.

3.   Scientists believe Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease can be contracted by eating infected beef.

4.   Researchers believe it is contracted by eating infected beef.

5.   Volunteers from a U.S. environmental group have spent the last week at remote Lameshur Bay studying ciguatera, an illness contracted by eating diseased fish.