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U.S. government officials are apparently blocking efforts to allow a French lab

to analyze and carry out tests on the brain tissue of a U.S. man who is strongly

suspected to have died of the human variant of mad cow disease. A deceased

California man's family and doctor have announced they believe Patrick Hicks,

aged 49, died late last year from variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease, or vCJD.

The fatal disease is contracted from eating beef contaminated with mad cow

disease. Patrick Hicks would be the first confirmed case in the U.S. of someone

dying from the vCJD disease who had never traveled or spent time in Europe.

Despite efforts by the deceased man's family and doctors to have his brain

tissue thoroughly tested at a lab in France U.S. officials have bungled tests

and repeatedly dragged their heels on sending brain samples overseas. " I don't

know what's going on here, " said Dr. Bailey, the physician who attended Patrick

Hicks. http://www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/delayed060305.cfm

 

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