Saudi Man May Have Mad Cow Disease

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By RAWYA RAGEH
Associated Press Writer

February 6, 2004, 12:00 PM EST


JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi medical authorities believe a man hospitalized last month and now in a coma is suffering from the kingdom's first case of the human form of mad cow disease

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It was not clear how the Quran teacher had contracted the disease, since he had never eaten beef, according to his son, Abdul Moneim Abdul Karim.

Abdul Karim said doctors told him a handful of other patients had also been diagnosed with the disease.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-saudi-mad-cow-disease,0,6455197.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

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