Human remains link to BSE crisis

BBC NEWS: "It proposes that some raw materials for fertiliser and feed imported from the Indian subcontinent in the 60s and 70s contained human bones and soft tissue. If remains were infected with human prion diseases like CJD, they could have been the source for BSE. The study by British researchers has been published in The Lancet. But it has been greeted with scepticism by several experts on Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). The authors admit their evidence stops short of proving their case, but argue that their theory is plausible enough to warrant further investigation."