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March 29, 2009 -- Updated 1835 GMT (0235 HKT)
Mad cow disease suspected in Spanish
doctor's death
Source of
Article: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/29/spain.madcow/
(CNN) -- A Spanish
pathologist who specialized in a human strain of mad cow disease died
Saturday, and officials suspect the disease played a role in his death,
officials said. The doctor was
head of the anatomy pathology section at the University Hospital Principe de
Asturias in Alcala de Henares, outside of Madrid, according to the Madrid
regional government's health office. He died Saturday night, at the hospital
where he worked, officials said. The doctor's name was not released at the
request of his family. Several samples
have been sent off for testing, the office said, but results are expected to
take a month. The doctor was
well known both in and outside Spain for his work in the pathology field. His
speciality was the human strain of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. It is not known
how the doctor might have contracted the disease, but the health office said it was
not thought to be through ingestion of contaminated meat. Authorities are
investigating whether the doctor had been exposed to contaminated human
tissue through his work. Since 2001, 702 Creutzfeldt-Jakob cases
have been reported in Spain, of which 87 have been reported in Madrid. Five
people have died.
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