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A Japanese man who died in December is believed to be the first person in Japan to die of the human variant of mad cow disease, Japanese Health Ministry officials said.
The man, said to be in his 50s, is believed to have become infected with the disease during a month-long visit to Britain in 1989, the officials said.
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