NEWS: Dutch Woman Diagnosed with Mad Cow Disease

A woman in the city of Utrecht, Netherlands has been diagnosed with the deadly variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, otherwise known as mad cow disease. This is the first case of the brain wasting prion disease diagnosed in the Netherlands. It appears that it's unlikely that she could have spread of the disease to anyone else through blood transfusions or other methods.



Mad cow seems to spreading to new areas where it hadn't been seen before. The Netherlands' proximity to England may indicate that she's part of the same outbreak that swept Britain, however.

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The Docters say, she could have attracted the disease, as long as 20 years ago, so it doesn't necesarilly mean, the current rules , testing and protectionschemes of cowmeat are inadequate.


[edit on 22-4-2005 by Silenus]

That is true. It's not clear yet where or when she contracted the disease. She may have lived in Britain for an extended period of time during the period when British beef was widely infected.

Get ready people because is coming this way, she may be the first in that country but I tell you I wonder how many people are treated for other problems and the doctors are disregarding mad cow disease as a posible cause.

I will not be surprised.