USA BSE INQUIRY CALL
April 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIE
SENATORS from New Jersey have requested a federal investigation into whether mad cow disease caused the deaths of 13 people since the late 1980s. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg and Jon Corzine, both Democrats, have asked the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to probe the deaths, officially certified as caused by naturally occurring Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from 1988 to 1992. All 13 had worked at or attended a horse racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
SENATORS from New Jersey have requested a federal investigation into whether mad cow disease caused the deaths of 13 people since the late 1980s. Senators Frank R. Lautenberg and Jon Corzine, both Democrats, have asked the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to probe the deaths, officially certified as caused by naturally occurring Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease from 1988 to 1992. All 13 had worked at or attended a horse racetrack in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
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