Volume 4, Number 3—September 1998
THEME ISSUE
ICEID 1998
New Agents and Disease Associations
The Emergence of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Related Diseases
Table 4
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom
| Deaths of definite and probable cases | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Referrals | Sporadic | Iatrogenic | Familial | GSSa | nvCJDb | Total |
| 1994 | 116 | 52 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 59 |
| 1995 | 86 | 34 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 46 |
| 1996 | 133 | 40 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 60 |
| 1997 | 152 | 42 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 61 |
| 1998c | 35 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
aGerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome.
bNew variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
cTo Apr 30, 1998. Figures released by U.K. Department of Health Jun 1, 1998.
