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Thanks to MamaDearest for pointing to this article.
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1114103477576_109512677/?hub=TopStories
April 21, 2005
"Dutch claim first human Creutzfeldt-Jakob case"
Associated Press
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A 26-year-old Dutch woman has been diagnosed with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, health authorities said Thursday, the first known human case of the fatal disease in the Netherlands.
Seventy-seven Dutch cows are known to have been infected since 1997 with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly called mad cow disease, which is believed to cause variant CJD in humans.
The patient, whose name was not released, is believed to have contracted the disease by eating tainted beef, the Health Ministry said in a statement."