Japan's 1st case of human mad cow disease confirmed

Japan's 1st case of human mad cow disease confirmed

TOKYO, Japan - Health ministry experts confirmed in an emergency meeting Japan's first case of the human variant of mad cow disease in a Japanese man who died in December. The ministry suspects the patient in his 50s was infected with the variant Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in Britain where he had stayed for about a month in around 1989.

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