4th Death From Mad Cow Disease Confirmed in U.S.
Health officials believe the victim was infected overseas.
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed the fourth death in the United States from a rare, fatal brain disorder linked to eating meat from cows with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease.
The latest case renewed questions from some advocates about the safety of the food supply.
The case involves a patient in Texas who died in May. Lab tests from an autopsy confirmed the patient had variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), a deadly disorder first reported in 1996 in the United Kingdom that has killed more than 220 people and prompted the slaughter of millions of cattle. Victims of the degenerative disease, which attacks the nervous system, suffer from
