Tuesday July 22nd 2008, 11:04 am
In the headline for a July 20 story about a patient with a degenerative brain illness, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the patient was being tested for mad cow disease. The patient was tested for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which has a variant attributed to mad cow disease, as explained in the story.
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Correction: Mad Cow-Testing story (AP via Yahoo! News)