Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom in 2002

A Molesworth

doi:10.2807/esw.07.02.02146-en

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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom in 2002
A Molesworth
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Citation style for this article: Molesworth A M. Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in the United Kingdom in 2002. Euro Surveill. 2003;7(2):pii=2146. https://doi.org/10.2807/esw.07.02.02146-en

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The end of 2002 has seen a total of 129 definitive or probable cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) reported in the United Kingdom (UK)[1]. Elsewhere numbers remain small, with 8 cases in Europe (6 in France, 1 in Italy, and 1 in the Republic of Ireland) and a further 2 cases in North America (Canada and the United States).