- SEATTLE (AP) -- A woman being
treated for a brain-wasting condition believed to be related to mad cow
disease has died, and an autopsy may help identify the ailment, authorities
said.
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- Brain tissue from the woman will be sent to the National
Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center at Case Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, Washington state health epidemiologist Dr. Jo Hofmann said.
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- Hoffman said the woman, who had been treated at Harborview
Medical Center in Seattle this summer for dementia and other symptoms,
was younger than 60 and neither resided nor died in the state.
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- Her identify has been withheld at the family's request,
and the date of her death was not given in an article published today.
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- Earlier, doctors said the biopsy tests indicated the
woman's disease most closely resembles an extremely rare ailment known
as GSS, short for Gerstmann, Straussler and Scheinker, the last names of
the German scientists who discovered it.
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