USDA- APPOINTED EXPERTS: MORE MAD COW IN U.S.

A panel of international experts appointed by Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said this morning that there's a "high probability'' of more cases of mad cow disease in American cattle. Urlich Kihm, the panel's chairman, told USDA officials that in the future, the United States "could have a case a month'' of mad cow disease. This would not be anywhere near the level of outbreak in Britain, but now everybody who eats a burger in America should rightly wonder, "Is this month... my month?"