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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2000-11-06T02:53:25'
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title: The report into the histories
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The report into the histories of 51 victims of vCJD, the human version of "mad cow disease" is out, and -- surprise, surprise -- [the was no statistical link between vCJD and eating beef](http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1006000/1006242.stm). One victim was not a beef eater. The rest ate beef with the same frequency as the population as a whole. Of course, just because there was no statistical link doesn't mean that they didn't get the disease from eating beef. They may have just gotten unlucky. And the non-beef eater had certainly eaten something with beef broth or beef by-products without specifically being aware of it.