Canadian health officials have confirmed the country's second-ever case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the rare human form of the so-called "mad cow disease" usually caused by eating infected beef.
The head of the federal agency that monitors the disease says the man, an Ontario resident, is believed to have been infected in Saudi Arabia, and that the chance he was infected by eating Canadian beef is "just about zero." More
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