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Could Measuring of Perceived Risk Among General Practitioners have Helped Anticipate the French BSE Crisis?

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In October of 2000, a second BSE crisis caught French public authorities unprepared and caused a collapse in beef consumption as well as considerable political turmoil. Data collected between May and July, 2000, among a group of general practitioners (GPs), while national consumption of beef was back to pre-BSE levels, paradoxically showed high latent risk perception, suggesting a new crisis was possible or likely.

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  1. CNRS, LEST, Aix-en-Provence, Paris, France

    Michel Setbon

  2. CNRS, EHESS, Paris, France

    Claude Fischler & Jocelyn Raude

  3. Inserm Unit 444, Paris, France

    Esther Lukasiewicz

  4. Observatoire du risque perçu de vMCJ-ESB, Paris, France; Eacute;pidémiologietul et Sciences de I'Information, INSERM U444, Faculté de Médecine Saint-Antoine, 27 rue Chaligny F-, 75571, Paris, Cedex 12, France; Phone:

    Antoine Flahault

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Setbon, M., Fischler, C., Lukasiewicz, E. et al. Could Measuring of Perceived Risk Among General Practitioners have Helped Anticipate the French BSE Crisis?. Eur J Epidemiol 19, 377–381 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:EJEP.0000024666.81612.08

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