Mother Of vCJD Victim Says There's Been A Mad Cow Cover-Up In UK
The United Kingdom's chief adviser on vCJD, the human form of Mad Cow disease, believes it is possible that the UK will experience a second wave of death from the brain-reducing prions in the years ahead. An estimated 50 to 350 additional vCJD deaths are predicted.
During the first wave of Mad Cow disease in the UK, eating infected beef killed 164 from the 1980s through the early 1990s.
And with the occasional vCJD death, Mad Cow remains a very tender issue for the British, Irish and Scots. No more so than for freelance journalist Christine Lord, mother of Andrew Black, who died of Mad Cow disease a year ago at age 24. (See Mother and Son in Picture)
Lord recently petitioned Prime Minister Gordon Brown to release confidential government documents addressing the Mad Cow issue. She claims there has been a cover-up and has mounted a Justice for Andy Campaign.
For more, check out this article in the Belfast Telegraph.
