A butcher checks a cow's carcass at an abattoir in the Sicilian capital Palermo February 6, 2002. Italy's beef industry tried to prevent consumer panic on Wednesday, a day after officials announced the country's first suspected case of the fatal brain-wasting human form of mad cow disease. A 25-year-old woman, a suspected victim of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease (vCJD), was admitted to hospital in Palermo. REUTERS/Tony Gentile PP05080048 AMP/GB