PRO/EDR> Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – Italy (Puglia)

— Italy
2 mysterious Creutzfeldt-Jacob deaths in Italy have officials scrambling to stop the fear of tainted beef from spreading.
Nothing kills the appetite for a thick, juicy T-bone steak like the mention of mad cow disease. So it’s little wonder that in the southern Italian region of Puglia, medical and veterinary officials are quickly playing down the fact that 2 people have died in the last 10 days from confirmed cases of Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, a neurological disorder with strains that were