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題名 | “British Mad Cows” and “Neurotic Germans”? The BSE/nvCJD Crisis of the 1990s=「英國狂牛症」與「恐懼的德國人」?九0年代BSE與nvCJD病毒危機 |
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作者 | Perkins, John; | 書刊名 | 國際論壇 |
卷期 | 2 2001.07[民90.07] |
頁次 | 頁109-145 |
分類號 | 412.4 |
關鍵詞 | 英國狂牛症; nvCJD病毒; BSE; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; |
語文 | 英文(English) |
中文摘要 | 1980年代中期,BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy)病症,也就是我們慣稱的狂牛症,首度在英國被認定為牛隻的疾病。之後,人們開始關注如此罕見的腦部絕症(類似癢病,一種綿羊的慢性神經機能病)是否會經由牛肉的食用,以變種病毒ncCJD (Creuzfeldt-Jakob Disease)的形式傳染給人類。直至目前為止,歐洲已經有29起個案被診斷為受CJD感染而喪命(其中一部分是否為此病毒感染仍存疑)。 德國對「狂牛症危機」所做出回應,在歐洲聯盟執委會禁止英國牛肉製品出口的決議中扮演了重要的角色。而一份德國研究報告中指出,國對狂牛症的民意反應與疾病防制有相關的關聯。本文由狂牛症的研究報告與德國政府與人民的回應中討論,德國特殊的回應正解釋了德國的民意力量、聯邦政府的功能,以及德國香腸在當地飲食中所佔的民生重要地位。 |
英文摘要 | BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopahty) was first recognized as a cattle disease in Britain in the mid-1980s. Thereafter, concerns began to be expressed regarding the possible transmission of this rare but incurable brain disease (resembling “scrapie” in sheep, first observed in British sheep in the 1720s) to humans in the form of a “new variant” of Creuzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) through the consumption of beef from infected cattle. So far nvCJD has been “diagnosed” as the cause of death of 29 individuals (with doubts in some cases). The paper is concerned with the German response to the “Mad Cow crisis”, which played a major role in the European Comission decision to ban the export of cattle products from Britain. It is suggested that there is a link between the (“West”) German response to BSE and the removal of the “security” the “Iron Curtain” provided Further, the particular German reaction is accounted for by the “volatility” of public opinion, the federal structure of government and the prominence of sausage (Wurst) in the local diet. |
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