Mad cow disease strikes Virginia man: NewsTarget.com

An unnamed man in Virginia has been diagnosed with the brain-destroying illness Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease, the rare human form of mad cow disease, and is the third U.S. case of the illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Saudi-born man, reported to the CDC by the Virginia Department of Health, likely contracted the disease during his youth in Saudi Arabia from consuming cattle contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the CDC reported on its web site.

"The current patient has no history of donating blood and the public health investigation has identified no risk of transmission to U.S. residents from this patient," the report said.

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