Dear colleagues,

I read with the big interest your article "BSE scare has forced meat industry to look at how it polices itself" (30 October 2006)...

BSE is an incurable fatal disease of cattle. Experts say;

" it is caused by a prion. Nobody quite knows how a cow becomes infected. It is a progressive neurological disorder. If a human eats infected beef there is a risk of developing the human equivalent of Mad Cow Disease, which is called vCJD. VCJD is also an incurable fatal disease."

However, according to my opinion ;

BSE can be a nutritional disorder... See my website (www.bse-expert.cz) and my recent "opinion- article" about the BSE and Alzheimer´s (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/youropinions.php?opinioni...).

Yours sincerely,

Josef Hlasny, DVM, PhD