Volume 9, Number 12—December 2003

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Age and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease

Peter Bacchetti* 

Author affiliation: *University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

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Figure. Estimated influence of age on a) risk for infection with the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) agent and b) risk for death from vCJD after infection. Vertical bars are pointwise 95% confidence intervals for selected ages.

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