Scientists 'Really Are Puzzled' by Ailment ; Experts in Mad Cow- Like Diseases Probe Seattle Case
The Columbian › August 19, 2004
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SEATTLE (AP) Top experts in mad cow-like diseases are trying to identify a strain discovered in a patient at Harborview Medical Center this summer.
It was clearly not the human form of mad cow, nor does it appear to have been Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a closely related condition, said Dr. Pierluigi Gambetti, director of the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center.See the full content of this document
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Scientists 'Really Are Puzzled' by Ailment ; Experts in Mad Cow- Like Diseases Probe Seattle Case
"We really are puzzled at this time," he told The Seattle Times. "This is unusual."
The condition of the patient was no...See the full content of this document
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