A U.S. citizen from the Middle East who died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in Britain in May 2014 likely ate contaminated UK meat . Investigators say the unnamed man , who was in his 40s , likely ate the tainted meat before moving to the U.S. in the 1990s . Variants Creutzfeldt-Jakob is a deadly neurological disease caused by abnormal proteins -- Texas 's seen hundreds of cases since the 1990s .
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 . Investigators say the unnamed man , who was in his 40s , likely ate the tainted meat before moving to the U.S. in the 1990s . Variants Creutzfeldt-Jakob is a deadly neurological disease caused by abnormal proteins -- Britain 's seen hundreds of cases since the 1990s .