1st Creutzfeldt Disease Fatality Is Reported
From Times Wire Reports
A 27-year-old Sicilian woman died of variant Creutzfeldt- Jakob disease, becoming Italy’s first victim of the brain-wasting illness believed to be linked to “mad cow” disease, doctors said.
Testing done in Britain confirmed the infection, officials said. It was not known how the woman contracted the disease. She had been hospitalized in Milan for several months.
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