RABAT, 4 March 2005 — Morocco said yesterday it believes a man died of the human form of mad cow disease, suspected to be the first case of its kind in the North African country.
The 61-year-old was a regular visitor to Europe, the Health Ministry said in a statement, without saying which country. He died on Wednesday in a Casablanca hospital.
“We are not 100 percent sure as we are still carrying out checks through samples, but it’s highly possible he died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD),” a senior ministry official told Reuters.
