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Article: Japan confirms first human mad cow disease death
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- February 4, 2005
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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 ...