[h=1]Edinburgh-born horse trainer Mark Douglas dies from CJD[/h] [h=3]Lizzy Buchan edinburghnews.com[/h] Published 12 April 2016 A FAMILY has spoken of its devastation after an Edinburgh-born horse trainer died from the rare brain disease CJD just days after being diagnosed.
Former army reserve Mark Douglas, 37, succumbed to the condition, known as the human form of mad cow disease, earlier this year.
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Laura Baird, his partner of 20 years, said: ?We thought it can?t be CJD ? he was the wrong age group and all sorts but that was what he had. It was a massive shock to us.?
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Mark was first rushed to hospital on December 23 last year after falling ill but doctors could not initially establish what was wrong.
After spending Christmas wracked with anxiety, he was finally diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) on January 4 ? a degenerative condition which had a variant form that was linked to mad cow disease. The illness is currently untreatable and Mark died on January 20....
