French health officials on trial for mad-cow disease deaths (TODAYonline) Fernand Dray, 85, former head of hormones extraction and purification department at the Pasteur Institute, arrives at the Paris justice court, for the trial of French health officials charged with involuntary homicide in the death of more than 100 children infected with a human variant of mad-cow disease, 16 years after the first victim of their alleged negligence died. [News Source]