Officials Rule Out Game in ‘Mad Cow’-Like Cases
From Times Wire Reports
Hunters who feasted on their prey at a cabin in northern Wisconsin -- and who later died of brain diseases -- probably did not catch “mad cow” disease from the meat, U.S. health officials said.
Two of the men who died were diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a human version of so-called mad cow disease, but it was likely not from eating infected meat, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta reported.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease occurs naturally in about 1 in a million people.
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