AR-News: (SA) Man Admitted to Hospital With Mad Cow Symptoms

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JEDDAH, 7 February 2004 — A sixty-five-year-old Saudi man from Madinah who
was admitted to King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah on Jan. 19 is
suspected of having variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), the human
form of mad cow disease, Al-Watan Arabic daily reported yesterday. If
confirmed it would be the first case of variant CJD in the Kingdom.

“After conducting a series of tests, the hospital told us on Jan. 31 that
my father is suffering from spongiform encephalopathy,” the daily quoted
the man’s son as saying. Hospital record say that the symptoms of Abdul
Karim, who is now in a coma, were “suggestive” of CJD. 
...
“He told us that he had not eaten beef while in Britain,” the son said.
“Possibly somebody in the market might had cheated him by giving beef
instead of mutton,” he added.

full story:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=39161&d=7&m=2&y=2004
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