Mad Cows And Mother's Milk
Subtitle: The Perils Of Poor Risk Communication
Edition: 2nd edition
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780773528178
Subjects: Communication Studies; Public Health; Health risk communication; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Risques pour la santÃ¢e; Safety; Health Risk Assessment; Communication; Risques pour la santâe
First sentence: On 20 March 1996, British Health Secretary Stephen Dorrell rose in the House to inform colleagues that scientists had discovered a new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in ten victims, and that they could not rule out a link with consumption of beef from cattle with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease.