Dead man’s brain tested for mad cow disease
© 2008 The Associated Press
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The brain of a Corpus Corpus man who died earlier this month was tested for a human form of mad cow disease, health officials said.
Annette Rodriguez, interim director of the Corpus Christi-Nueces County Health District, said the district was notified in early July by officials from a Corpus Christi hospital that a patient may have had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Results of a brain biopsy are expected in two months to confirm whether the man had the disease and if it is the variant linked to mad cow.
