Volume 5, Number 2—April 1999
Perspective
International Editors:Emerging Infectious Diseases—United Kingdom
Table
Deaths of definite and probable U.K. cases due to spongiform encephalopathy referred to the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unita, 1995-1998b
| Deaths of definite and probable cases |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Referrals | Sporadic | Iatrogenic | Familial | GSSc | nv-CJDc | Total |
| 1995 | 87 | 35 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 47 |
| 1996 | 134 | 41 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 61 |
| 1997 | 161 | 58 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 79 |
| 1998 | 150 | 39 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 56 |
aData source: National CJD Surveillance Unit (set up in May 1990 by the Department of Health and the Scottish Office Home and Health Department).
bTo Dec. 31, 1998 (provisional); total number of definite and probable cases of nvCJD=35.
cGSS, Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker syndrome; nvCJD, new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
