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prepared to embrace the policies needed, and 14.in the case of the poorest countries may need the support of the international

munity as they do so .

Unite five: Spinal Cords

Agricultural and public-health experts in Britain find many other serious flaws in the government's 1.handling of the mad-cow epidemic. Officials waited 18 months after discovering the first cases of BSE to declare it a “notifiable” 2.disease ,requiring that all cases be reported to the authorities. They waited nearly three years to 3.forbid use of cattle brains and spinal cords in food for

4.humans .The government offered to compensate farmers for

5.any suspected BSE cases they destroyed—but at far less then the animal's 6.normal value, a rate that 7.discouraged farmers from reporting the disease in their herds, according to critics. “It could all have been over in a month,” says Millstone. “It might have cost a few million pounds. But that's a fraction of what it's going to cost now.”

Currie argues that the government 8.likewise fumbled when it disclosed the possible link between CJD and mad-cow disease. “If you are going to announce a health scare,” she says, “you have to

9.announce at the same time what you are going to do about it.”