A SIGN ADVERTISING A VILLAGE MEETING TO HEAR RESULTS OF CJD REPORT IS POSTED TO...

A sign inviting people from Queniborough in Leicestershire to a public meeting to hear the results of a report into the cluster of cases of new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is nailed to a tree in the centre of the village March 21, 2001. The inquiry into the deaths of five people, who contracted the so called mad-cow disease from the village in central England, was launched last summer in the hope that it would help unlock the key to how bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the brain wasting disease in cattle, was passed to humans. REUTERS/Ian Hodgson. IH/PS