Volume 7, Number 1—February 2001
Perspective
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Background, Evolution, and Current Concerns
Table 3
Chronology of variant Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (vCJD) in the United Kingdom and other European countries, as of December 2000
Year of onset | United Kingdom | France | Ireland |
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1994 | 8 | 1 | |
1995 | 10 | ||
1996 | 11 | ||
1997 | 14 | ||
1998 | 17 | ||
1999a | 20 (+4) | 1 (+1) | 1 |
2000a | 1 (+2) |
aParentheses indicate still-living persons with probable vCJD or deceased persons whose diagnoses have not yet been confirmed by neuropathologic examination. In 2000, additional cases have been identified that do not yet meet the minimum clinical criteria for a premortem diagnosis of "probable" vCJD. Dates are for year of onset of illness, not year of death.