[LucyT]

From the article:

Virtually the entire population of the UK was exposed to infected meat in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but relatively few cases of vCJD have resulted so far.

Including UK visitors from all over the world during this time period?

[struwwelpeter]

This hits close to home - my daughter wanted to donate blood last month. She was turned down because she had been born and lived in Europe, even though she'd been donating blood for years.

We were in Germany, but the US commissary system procured meat from UK and Ireland. BSE was raging the whole time we were there (1988-1994), but were assured that there was nothing to worry about, that the outbreak was confined to England, it was under control, and posed to risk to human health.

Then in the late 1990s people in UK started coming down with atypical Creutzfeld Jacobs disease (CJD), but it was decided that those victims were just latent cases.

Now it's in the blood. Red Cross just figured this out, but I wonder where all the blood that my daughter (and thousands of others like her) ended up.