2 deaths in Spain linked to mad cow disease--authorities Agence France-Presse First Posted 23:18:00 04/07/2008 MADRID--Two people have died in central Spain after contracting the human form of mad cow disease, regional authorities said Monday, in what would be the first such cases in the country in three years. "Two people are dead from Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease (vCJD)," the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease, said a spokeswoman for the health department in the central Castilla-Leon region. One of them died on December 28 and the other on February 7, she said. Spanish national radio...