rth millions of dollars. Also effected were British businesses such as Mc Donald's restaurants. The price of cattle at England's biggest cattle auction suffered a severe drop." About 800 cattle were sold at auction in Britain, compared to 4,000 on a typical day before the scare", (David, Net search). Beef cattle prices slumped 15% on British markets and supermarkets, and fast food restaurants struggled. Many British schools banned beef from their menu until further notice. "It is said that the beef industry in the United Kingdom to be hanging by a thread"(Ben Leamy. Net search).
It was found that people from different countries had similar symptoms, but yet it is not clear on how wide the disease had spread. The British government has just recently acknowledged that this disease in cattle has now apparently crossed another species barrier and appeared in humans in the form known as Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (CJD).
The new British crisis began after sixteen people under the age of forty came down wi
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