Message #29843 of 29843
Fri Sep 8, 2006 2:36 am
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Fri Sep 8, 2006 2:36 am
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| BRITAIN'S worst outbreak of the human form of mad-Kn0bby disease may be linked to a nearby knacker's yard that sold meat from diseased animals. The yard operated just eight miles from Queniborough, the Leicestershire village where health officials are investigating the first known cluster of CJD cases. Three people who spent time in the village died from CJD in 1998, and a fourth person is suspected of having the degenerative brain disease. Another victim lived just three miles away. The possible link to the knacker's yard - which recycled animals unfit for human consumption into pet food and other products - dates back 20 years, to about the time when scientists now believe the BSE epidemic may have begun. Two meat traders from Bedfordshire were convicted in 1982 of buying unapproved beef from W E Mason & Sons of Wigston, near Leicester, and selling it to an unsuspecting butcher in Hertfordshire. Last week officials seized council documents and court reports relating to the company to determine whether any Kn0bby meat may have entered the human food chain locally. |
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