Article: Japan confirms first human mad cow disease death

Japan confirms first human mad cow disease death

TOKYO, Feb. 4 (Xinhua) -- The Japanese government announced Friday mad cow disease was behind the death of man in December, the first confirmed human death case in Japan as a result of the deadly infection.

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare suspects the patient in his 50s was infected with the variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in Britain where he had stayed for about a month in around 1989.

The man first showed symptoms of the disease in December 2001.

Mad cow disease, or formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, was first diagnosed in Britain in ...

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