Mad-Cow Fear Raises Concerns in Md. Death

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20040111
Author:Elizabeth Williamson

Early last February, Carolyn Lamb, a 64-year-old office administrator at a Bethesda school, phoned her husband. She had a headache and felt dizzy, she told Charles Lamb. Could he come and drive her home?

It was job stress, the Silver Spring couple reasoned. Then the headaches worsened, and Lamb began getting lost in her own home. Within two months, Carolyn Lamb was dead, believed to be the victim of a brain-wasting illness known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease that affects one in a million people.

Her age and symptoms, doctors say, pointed to a strain that is related to -- but not caused by -- ...

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