article_snippet.sent: Twenty-nine cases were diagnosed worldwide in 2011, according to the American Meat Institute.
article_snippet.sent: According to CDC.gov, 177 of 229 patients with this extremely rare disease from 12 countries were from the United Kingdom.
article_snippet.sent: Source: CDC.gov, Reuters .
highlights_snippet.sent: A  U.S. citizen from the Middle East who died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Texas in May 2014 likely ate contaminated UK meat .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Investigators say the unnamed man, who was in his 40s, likely ate UK meat before moving to U.S. in the 1990s .
  