Greek man dies from CJD brain disease, mad cow link ruled out (TODAYonline) University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) scientist Carsten Korth looks at the molecular structure of drugs being tested in a series of "mad cow" trials in 2001. A 46-year-old man in Greece has died from health complications related to the rare brain-debilitating disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) but there is no link to mad cow disease. [News Source]