Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association agree that the Texas man who died recently from contacting the human form of BSE didn’t get it from consuming U.S. beef. NCBA Vice President of Government Affairs Colin Woodall says the illness the Texas man got came from specified risk materials in beef likely coming from Europe.
Woodall says CDC indicates the man who died traveled a lot overseas and spent time in Europe.
He says NCBA assures U.S. customers that America’s beef is safe and there’s no direct relation with this case.
The case of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease is the fourth ever confirmed in the United States and the first in Texas. Globally more than 200 variant CJD patients have been reported with most of those from the United Kingdom and France.