United States takes precautions against BSE

The Response to BSE in the United States

Since the emergence of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s, the United States has implemented various measures to prevent the disease from entering the country, to prevent its spread if discovered here, and to safeguard human health. Regulatory actions included import restrictions, a ban on certain ruminant tissues in ruminant feed, and a surveillance ...

Obligatory precautions against infection.

If we have a duty not to infect others, how far does it go? This question is often discussed with respect to HIV transmission, but reflection on other diseases like influenza raises a number of interesting theoretical issues. I argue that a duty to avoid infection not only yields requirements for persons who know they carry a disease, but also for persons who know they are at increased risk, an...

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

An Estimate of the Prevalence of BSE in the United States

Report on Measures Relating to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (bse) in the United States

The Secretary’s Foreign Animal and Poultry Disease Advisory Committee’s Subcommittee on the United States’ Response to the Detection of a Case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (hereafter referred to as ‘the subcommittee’), consisted of Prof. U. Kihm (Switzerland), Prof. W. Hueston (USA), Dr. D. Matthews (UK), Prof. S. C. MacDiarmid (New Zealand) and Dr. D. Heim (Switzerland). The subcommitte...