[incrudible]

It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of infected cattle entered the food chain in the 1980s. The total number of cases of vCJD is at less than 250 as of 2018.

Feeding practices that led to BSE have changed, the USDA is still testing for BSE, and if the disease was spreading, we'd probably notice it at some point.

Personally, I'd be far more worried about cattle farming practices spawning some sort of super-resistant flesh-eating bacteria than anything related to BSE.

[mannerheim]

Also worth noting that only four of those cases occurred in the US, and none of those have been traced to US beef; in each of these cases, the patients had spent a significant time living outside of the US (and two of the patients lived in the UK, whose cows were known for having BSE).

https://www.cdc.gov/prions/vcjd/vcjd-reported.html