Tokyo, first mad cow human case
Tokyo (AsiaNews/Agencies) Japanese health ministry officials has confirmed it's first case of the human variant of mad cow disease. An emergency meeting has been planned for today. Media said he had probably contracted it during a month-long stay in 1990 in the UK, where the disease first surfaced in the late 1980s. At least 150 people have died of the disease from 1996 , in France, Canada, Ireland, Italy and United States. Mad cow disease (BSE) was first found in Japanese cattle in 2001. Japan has had at least 14 cases of the disease in cows, but until now no human cases.
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