Man’s Death Is Blamed on ‘Mad Cow’ Disease
From Times Wire Reports
A fourth person in France is believed to have died of the human form of “mad cow” disease, a health research institute said.
The man, about 30 and living in central France, died Sunday, said Francois Honnorat, a lawyer representing families of the French victims of the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which afflicts humans.
The human version of the bovine disease is believed to be caused by consumption of infected meat.
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