Two butchers check the carcasses of some cows in an abattoir in the Sicilian capital Palermo Februar.....
Two butchers check the carcasses of some cows in 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 cows disease. A 25-year-old woman, a suspected victim of the vCJD disease, was admitted in hospital in Palermo.