Degenerative Brain Condition

An Australian has been diagnosed with a deadly "one-in-a-million" degenerative brain condition, but authorities today stressed it was unrelated to mad cow disease and not contagious.

Radical Islamist preacher Abu Hamza should not be extradited from Britain to the United States because he requires a brain scan to establish if he has a "degenerative" condition, his lawyer said on Wednesday.

An Australian has been diagnosed with a deadly "one-in-a-million" degenerative brain condition, but authorities today stressed it was unrelated to mad cow disease and not contagious.

Radical Islamist preacher Abu Hamza should not be extradited from Britain to the United States because he requires a brain scan to establish if he has a "degenerative" condition, his lawyer said on Wednesday.