Two Spaniards died of "mad cow disease"

Two residents of Spain died from infection with "mad cow disease" (spongiform encephalopathy, a variant of the disease Kroytsfeldta-Jakob disease). According to the TV channel ABC, both deaths are registered in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon. The Department of Health has today confirmed that. Two men aged 41 and 50 years The first of them died in about three months, and the second died on 7 February. Cause of death for men was found at autopsy. According to doctors contracted both victims of incurable diseases to 8-10 years. By eating meat from sick animals Due to the extremely long incubation period of "mad cow" disease, the doctors do not rule out that the emergence of new patients. From 1999 to 2005 in Spain, more than 700 cases of "mad cow" disease in animals was found. But in the last two years, new outbreaks of the infection was not observed. The first and only case of human death from encephalitis Kroytsfeldta sponge-Jakob disease in Spain in 2005. Then the victim is a serious infection was 26-year-old Madrid.