The Seventeenth
Annual Report of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Surveillance Unit (NCJDSU) was published today.
The NCJDSU is funded by the Department of Health and the Scottish
Executive Health Department. The report looks back over the period
from May 1990 (when the Unit was set up) to 31 December 2008. The
report outlines the Unit’s work in the clinical surveillance of
variant (vCJD), sporadic and iatrogenic CJD. The key figures on
the incidence of CJD are:
between 1995 and 31 December 2008, a total of 167 cases of
definite or probable vCJD had been identified in the UK;only one
new probable or definite case of vCJD was reported in 2008;here
was one death from vCJD in 2008.
The Report is available on the NCJDSU website at www.cjd.eu.uk
Contacts:
Department of Health
Phone: 020 7210 5221
NDS.DH@coi.gsi.gov.uk