December 6, 2006

Third U.S. mad cow case reported in Virginia, CDC says

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was cited as saying that a Saudi-born man living in Virginia has been identified as the third reported U.S. case of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, or vCJD.
"This U.S. case-patient was most likely infected from contaminated cattle products consumed as a child when living in Saudi Arabia," the CDC said in its report, posted on the Internet at LINK