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Avoid eating British beef in the 1980s/1990s, too. Apparently 1 in 2,000 people in the UK may be infected.[0] We still don't know if there's going to be a sec
by M2Ys4U 5y ago
Avoid eating British beef in the 1980s/1990s, too.
Apparently 1 in 2,000 people in the UK may be infected.[0]
We still don't know if there's going to be a second wave of disease from infections from that time period due to genetic factors influencing incubation of the disease.
This is why people who were in the UK for longer than a few months during the 80s and 90s aren't allowed to give blood in various places around the world.
[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24525584 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24525584
- croes 5y agoAnd don't feed beef to cows.
- yhoneycomb 5y agoSerious question should I be avoiding traveling to the UK over this??
- hef19898 5y agoNo, that was 20-30 years ago.
- dangerbird2 5y agoAt this point, the best prevention is to avoid eating anyone who lived in Britain 20-30 years ago
- hef19898 5y agoHopefully that's something we can all agree upon!
- heavenlyblue 5y agoYou forgot anyone who ate anyone who lived in Britain 20-30 years ago.
- acjohnson55 5y agoNope, but do avoid eating any British people over the age of 20.
- anthk 5y agoI was there with the mad cow disease. Not in the UK, but in Spain, as commerce inside the EU made people truly paranoid on eating meat from "untrusted" sources. Scary, really scary.
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