I wish I never picked up that device and wish I never lit it in an instant. My entire hand was gone. Matthew Scott lost his hand 13 years ago. He recently became the nation's first hand transplant recipient. He was part of the Consumer Product Safety Commissions annual fireworks danger demonstration.
Researchers say the risk of mad cow disease among people in the United States is small.
The study says unique circumstances existed in Britain in the late 1980s when an epidemic began that lasted through 1996. The report says those conditions do not exist in the United States. Other researchers have said the infective protein in the sheep wound up in the cattle that way. British authorities link mad cow to a similar fatal condition in humans. Researchers affiliated with the American Medical Association say the U.S. government has taken necessary protective steps.