In March 1996, the USDA banned beef imports from Europe following the outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle "mad cow disease".
This action was apparently to protect the US public from which specific human prion disease?
A. Kuru
B. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
C. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
D. Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Syndrome