London - Hundreds of thousands of British meat-eaters might eventually die from the human form of mad cow disease, but the scale of the epidemic will not be known for years, the government's chief medical officer said yesterday. "There are still a lot of uncertainties about this disease," Prof Liam Donaldson told BBC radio.
So far 48 Britons have died from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), which is always fatal, and the scare has crippled the British beef trade.
