In Brief... BSE Disease Now in Western Europe
What peaked as a minor British epidemic in 1992 and 1993 has more recently spread first to France, and now to Germany.
BSE is popularly known as mad cow disease. CJD is the acronym for the human form of BSE, often fatal especially to young people. It is a rapidly debilitating disease of the brain.
As the Times (London) explained, "Over the past month [October] it has belatedly dawned on France that people have long been eating meat from cattle infected with BSE." Now in late November, BSE has been confirmed in two German cows with one possible case of CJD, the first human victim in the Federal Republic.
This disturbing disease has been a political football in Western Europe as, until fairly recently, British beef was basically banned on the European Continent. Now public pressure is being brought in Britain to ban French beef.
Sources: The Daily Mail, November 25, 2000; Times(London), November 10 and 21, 2000.
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World News and Prophecy: December 2000
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Darris McNeely
Darris McNeely works at the United Church of God home office in Cincinnati, Ohio. He and his wife, Debbie, have served in the ministry for more than 43 years. They have two sons, who are both married, and four grandchildren. Darris is the Associate Media Producer for the Church. He also is a resident faculty member at the Ambassador Bible Center teaching Acts, Fundamentals of Belief and World News and Prophecy. He enjoys hunting, travel and reading and spending time with his grandchildren.
John Ross Schroeder
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John was a humble servant who dedicated his life to sharing the gospel—the good news—of Jesus Christ and the Kingdom of God to all the world, and his work was known to readers in nearly every country of the world.
