The selective agenda-pushing and "reporting" never ends.
"Cape Cod patient tested for variant of mad cow disease
Public health officials in Massachusetts are investigating whether a patient in a Cape Cod hospital has an ailment similar to mad cow disease.
Dr. Alfred DeMaria, the state's director of communicable disease control, confirmed yesterday that tests are being done to see whether the patient has Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and whether it is the variant attributed to mad cow.
There have only been three cases of the human form of mad cow disease reported in the United States in the last several years, and officials say it is not likely that the patient in Cape Cod Hospital has the disease. A spokesman for Cape Cod Hospital confirmed the facility had notified public health officials about the case on Thursday.
Eating meat products contaminated with mad cow disease is linked to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal human malady.
DeMaria said previously it will take a few days before the test results are available; but in an interview with the Globe last night, he said, "It would be extremely unlikely to be mad cow related [Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease]."
He said about a half-dozen cases are reported every year in Massachusetts and about 300 nationwide (Boston Globe July 21 2008)."
