Ethics of ignorance: lessons from the epidemiological assessment of the bovine spongioform encephalopathy ("mad cow disease") epidemic

Perspect Biol Med. 1998 Winter;41(2):259-66. doi: 10.1353/pbm.1998.0022.

Authors

A Morabia¹, M Porta

Affiliation

¹ Clinical Epidemiology Division, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.

PMID: 9493402
DOI: 10.1353/pbm.1998.0022

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Animals
Cattle
Cattle Diseases / transmission
Causality
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome / transmission*
Disease Outbreaks
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / epidemiology
Encephalopathy, Bovine Spongiform / transmission*
Humans
Risk Factors
United Kingdom / epidemiology