Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Sweden probes possible mad cow death
Published: 16 Feb 11 07:00 CET |
A woman in her fifties from V?rnamo in central Sweden died recently of the rare brain-debilitating disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD), Sveriges Radio (SR) reported on Tuesday.
"A patient who had been sick for about six months died the other week. In the last month we established that she had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease," infectious disease specialist Peter Iveroth told SR.
Health officials will now carry out an investigation into the woman's death to determine if it may have been caused by the variant of CJD associated with mad cow disease.
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http://www.thelocal.se/32068/20110216/
Published: 16 Feb 11 07:00 CET |
A woman in her fifties from V?rnamo in central Sweden died recently of the rare brain-debilitating disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD), Sveriges Radio (SR) reported on Tuesday.
"A patient who had been sick for about six months died the other week. In the last month we established that she had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease," infectious disease specialist Peter Iveroth told SR.
Health officials will now carry out an investigation into the woman's death to determine if it may have been caused by the variant of CJD associated with mad cow disease.
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http://www.thelocal.se/32068/20110216/