AR-News: (US) Florida woman with 'mad cow' disease dies

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MIAMI - A Florida woman suffering from the only known case in the United
States of the human form of mad cow disease has died, her family said on
Monday.

Charlene Singh died on Sunday at her home in Fort Lauderdale after being
ill for several years with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which is
fatal and incurable. Her family believe she contracted it by eating
contaminated meat in Britain more than a decade ago.

"I miss her smile, I miss her voice," Singh's mother, Alison Singh, told
local media. "It's like a nightmare."

The brain-wasting illness is thought to be caused by eating processed
food made from cattle with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow
disease. 

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