This will include most U.S. servicemen stationed in England and Europe. The FDA is also considering banning blood from tens of thousands of hunters, including those who took part in the fall 2000 hunting season. It means the disease, which they probably contracted from domestic cattle and sheep, is in the soil and streams and is being transferred as animals defecate, graze, defecate, etc. It is also troubling that mad cow is spreading to zoo animals, cats, lions, cheetahs, and a growing number of othr species. A whole farm of mink was wiped out by the disease.
Poultry is also suspect.
The disease is jumping to a large number of different animals species and to humans. In order to understand this, you need to know about prions. Scientist always used to think that infectious diseases could only be caused by bacteria. But the discovery of prions changed all that. It runs contrary to what the experts had been taught in the universities.