Throughout the early stages of the debacle the soaring rates of infection were treated moe a publicity problem than a massive publictheathN Crisis. The government's most notorious propaganda ploy came in 1990, when Minister of Agriculture John Gummer(force)fed his daughter a hamburger in front of live television cameras and assured the public British beef was safe. "it's delicious, ' he said as he shelled(t) his daughters safety for the sake of an image few found credible, While 16 year old vicky Rimmer lay dying of nvCuD(a new variant in human) in 1994, a government doctor asked her mother not to publicize the case so that the economy would not be damaged. After Vicky's death, Prime Minister John Major wrote to her mother,"I should make it clear that humans do not get mad cow disease orr anecaoThroughout the early stages of the debacle, the soaring rates of infection were treated more as a publicity problem than a massive public health crisis. The government’s most notorious propaganda ploy came in 1990, when Minister of Agriculture John Gummer (force) fed his daughter a hamburger in front of live television cameras and assured the public British beef was safe. “It’s delicious,” he said, as he shilled(托) his daughter’s safety for the sake of an image few found credible. While 16 year old Vicky Rimmer lay dying of nvCJD(a new variant in human) in 1994, a government doctor asked her mother not to publicize the case so that the economy would not be damaged. After Vicky’s death, Prime Minister John Major wrote to her mother, "I should make it clear that humans do not get `mad cow disease’ .