Scientist warns of human mad cow link
- Title
- Scientist warns of human mad cow link
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 24 May 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:02:21
- Description
- A leading scientist is claiming that people are dying from an illness linked to mad cow disease. Dr Gareth Roberts says Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is often mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease, or senility, so there may be many more cases than previously thought. Roberts is one of a group of medical experts that is campaigning for a ban on the feeding of cattle or sheep offal to pigs. Simon Bowden reports.
- Contributors
- Simon Bowden; Gareth Roberts
- Keywords
- Deaths; Pigs; Health; Farming; Sheep; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Cattle; Brain diseases; Meat products; Animal nutrition; Animal diseases
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LBC/IRN, "Scientist warns of human mad cow link". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/lbc/search/index.php/segment/0004800540011 (Accessed 23 Apr 2025)