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Woman dies of mystery disease in Seattle
Friday, August 20, 2004 | No comments posted.
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.
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.
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.
Her identify has been withheld at the family's request, and the date of her death was not given in an article published today.
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.
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.
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.
Her identify has been withheld at the family's request, and the date of her death was not given in an article published today.
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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