Personal Injury Law

UK May Have Mad Cow Disease Death of 22-Year Old Man

The family of the United Kingdom's Andrew 'Rew' Hawker are confident that when test results are in, they will show he died from variant CJD---linked to eating BSE infected meat.

Hawker died at at King's Mill Hospital on 7th May after being struck down by pneumonia while he fought the degenerative neurological disorder.

The 22-year old Bilsthorpe man has died from a suspected case of the incurable Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) — better known as 'mad cow' disease.  Health experts have told his family Andrew suffered from the more common sporadic form of CJD which usually affects 45-75 year olds.

Hawker  was diagnosed with the brain disease in October last year and his brave fight against it touched the hearts of his devastated friends and family.

For more on this tragic death, go here.

Full post as published by Mad Cow Blog on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).