Resumen de More mad cow disease to come
It's happened. Until now, vCJD--the disease caused by infection with BSE--has struck only people of a certain genetic makeup. Now, for the first time, a case has been confirmed in someone with different genes--which may mean they have been misdiagnosing a new wave of cases. In 2014, a 36-year-old man in the UK started developing aggressive personality changes, memory loss and problems walking. The symptoms and brain scans were typical of ordinary CJD, a rare disease that usually affects elderly people, not linked to BSE. But checks after he died in Feb 2016 showed that, in fact, he had vCJD, the kind caused by "mad cow disease".
