Personal Injury Law

vCJD Possible Cause of Woman's Death In Virginia

The  Virginian-Pilot has reported on the death of a 22 year old woman that may be related to a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, known as vCJD, a rare degenerative brain disorder that has been linked to consumption of contaminated beef.

The V-P reports:

A 22-year-old woman who may have had a rare degenerative brain disorder that has been linked to eating beef from cattle infected with mad cow disease has died.

The story can be found here.

Full post as published by Mad Cow Blog on April 12, 2008 (boomark / email).