Second US mad cow?
Vets are investigating a second suspected case of mad cow disease in the US. The US Department of Agriculture’s inspection service announced on 18 November that it is withholding details of the cow until a definitive BSE test is conducted this week. French authorities, meanwhile, have reported the first suspected case of BSE in a goat.
Chernobyl cancers
The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident was the most likely cause of 849 cancer cases in northern Sweden, scientists claimed last week. But other experts questioned the finding, saying that too little radiation reached Sweden to produce so many…
