Third US human case of mad cow disease

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified a Saudi-born man living in Virginia as the third human case of mad cow disease (variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) in the U.S. The CDC states that the man was most likely infected by eating contaminated beef products when he was a child living in Saudi Arabia. This brings the total of individuals worldwide diagnosed with mad cow disease to 200, most of whom (164) have been in the United Kingdom. The CDC has more information available online about this most recent case.