Spain reports fifth human death from mad cow disease

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Spain reports fifth human death from mad cow disease 1 hour agoMADRID (AFP) - The Spanish government late Friday confirmed the country's fifth fatality from the human variant of mad cow disease, a woman who died in the northern city of Santander in January.The health ministry said laboratory tests confirmed that the woman had Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) as the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, is known."The appearance of sporadic cases of the disease does not indicate new risks for the health of the public," it said in a statement.The last death in Spain which was confirmed to have been due to the brain-wasting disease took place in August 2008 in the northwestern region of Castilla and Leon.Spain recorded its first human death from mad cow disease in June 2005 when a 26-year-old woman succumbed to it in Madrid.More than 200 people around the world are suspected to have died, most of them in Britain, from the human variant of the disease, which was first described in 1996.Scientists believe the disease was caused by using infected parts of cattle to make feed for other cattle.Authorities believe eating meat from infected animals can trigger the human variant of the fatal brain-wasting disease.The 27-member EU, of which Spain is part, has banned high-risk materials such as spinal cord from use in feed and stricter labelling was also introduced.Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights
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SEAC 102nd Meeting on Wednesday 4 March 2009 (SEE DH risk assessment on sourcing and pooling plasma) SEACAgenda 102nd Meeting on Wednesday 4 March 2009 Room 808, Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, Defra, London SW1P 3JR10.05 Approval of draft minutes from SEAC 101snip...ITEM 3 - CURRENT ISSUES 8. SEAC was informed about the following issues: . A mother and son in Spain had died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD). This is the first recorded instance of more than one case of vCJD within one family. As both the mother and son lived in a region of Spain with a history of BSE, had frequently shared meals of cattle brain, and as no other risk factor has been identified, it seems most likely that both infections were acquired from dietary exposure. Furthermore, the similar times of onset of disease of the cases did not suggest transmission had occurred from one to the other.snip...Thursday, February 26, 2009 SEAC 102nd Meeting on Wednesday 4 March 2009 (SEE DH risk assessment on sourcing and pooling plasma)


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Friday, January 09, 2009

Mad cow disease detected on Madrid farm Friday, January 9, 2009


SEE RISE IN CJD CASES ;


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