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Mad Cow Liane Hansen talks with Dr. Paul Brown, senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health, about the case of a Florida woman with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The disease comes from ingesting meat infected with BSE, which is often called mad cow disease. Brown says the woman must have contracted it after eating meat as a young girl in Britain. (4:00) For more information: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/cjd/bse_cjd.htm.

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Liane Hansen talks with Dr. Paul Brown, senior investigator at the National Institutes of Health, about the case of a Florida woman with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. The disease comes from ingesting meat infected with BSE, which is often called mad cow disease. Brown says the woman must have contracted it after eating meat as a young girl in Britain. (4:00) For more information: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/cjd/bse_cjd.htm.