Thursday, December 9, 2010

Taiwan Department of Health confirmed the first case of suspected human infection with mad cow disease deaths


At 14:39 on December 9, 2010
Taiwan Department of Health 八号 night confirmed the first suspected mad cow disease appeared deaths, the case is a thirty-year-old male, had mad cow epidemic in Britain to live within a decade, returned to Taiwan in 2008 after the disease, died within twenty-eight months, despite the mad cow disease-related symptoms and the like, but because their families do not want to gross anatomy, it has not been established.
八号 evening, the Taiwan Center for Disease Control held an emergency press conference that since Taiwan's first suspected mad cow disease deaths occur.
Case is a thirty-year-old male pilot work, once the mad cow epidemic in the UK life for ten years, three years ago, began to symptoms such as drowsiness and memory impairment, coma, ten months after May 2010 died.
As family members never promised to do gross anatomy, with the biopsy, so that is why could not confirm whether it is really infected with mad cow disease, death, the case in the illness, also had two people donate blood, one of whom also lead to sepsis after receiving the blood.

Mad cow disease before the invasion of Taiwan for the Taiwan side, there are doubts, it is open to U.S. bone-in beef imports, once the ruling and opposition caused controversy, the CDC said the cases are imported cases, but also emphasizes improving hospital control and will not impact on the epidemic prevention.

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