title: Fears lessen for human BSE.
abstract: Alarm bells rang eight years ago with the evidence that mad cow disease could pass from cows to humans via the food chain. But new research suggests that the disease, although still a problem in a number of countries, will have a limited effect on the human population.
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gross
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D016643:Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology