STILL NO NATIVE U.S. CASES OF MAD COW-LIKE DISEASE.

Reports on the concerns about widening human exposure to variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (vCJD) in elk and deer in the U.S. Formation of a committee at the Institute of Medicine to look into the matter; Fear of transfer of chronic wasting disease from animals to humans; Suggestions of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the issue; Method of killing vCJD strains on surgical tools.