Volume 9, Number 12—December 2003
Dispatch
Age and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
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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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