title: Ethics of ignorance: lessons from the epidemiological assessment of the bovine spongioform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease") epidemic.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Epidemiology Division, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Morabia
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Porta
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D002418:Cattle Diseases / Q000635:transmission; D015984:Causality; D007562:Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / Q000635:transmission*; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D016643:Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology