Health officials concluded the young woman contracted the disease when she lived in England. She was born there in 1979 and moved to the United States in 1992.
Singh had been a young, vibrant woman until November 2001, her family said. That's when she began to forget things and lose her temper.
There is no cure for the disease.
瘋牛症無藥可醫
Charlene Singh終於過世
"It's shocking and stunning," said Singh's aunt, Sharon Singh-Passley. "Her body couldn't take it anymore."
Singh, 25, died in her sleep, her aunt said.
June 21, 2004 United Press International By STEVE MITCHELL
The first and only person in the United States to develop the human form of mad cow disease died Sunday in Florida, United Press International has learned.
Charlene Singh, of Fort Lauderdale, died early Sunday morning from complications due to variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, said her aunt, Sharon Singh-Passley.
The disease known as vCJD is a fatal, incurable brain disorder humans can acquire from eating meat infected with the mad cow pathogen.
Over the last 20 years the rates of Alzheimer's disease in the United States have skyrocketed. According to the CDC, Alzheimer's Disease is now the eighth leading cause of death in the United States,afflicting an estimated 4 million Americans. Twenty percent or more of people clinically diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, though, are found at autopsy not to have had Alzheimer's at all. A number of autopsy studies have shown that a few percent of Alzheimer's deaths may in fact be CJD. Given the new research showing that infected beef may be responsible for some sporadic CJD, thousands of Americans may already be dying because of Mad Cow disease every year.
Is that possible that Mr. Ma already infect with the disease?? even though he claimed that their family budget only allowed eat pig foot weekly during his study in US and mad cow disease found only after 1980, but who knows how often he visit US and European countris after the 1980, and what food instead of pig foot , shark fin When the ship is sinking the skipper has the choice of abandon the ship then sink with the ship or at least the last one left the ship, but we might have a skipper run away first and let the crews sink with the ship in stead. It seems our ship in sailing in this direction.