Written question asked by David Drew (Labour) on Thursday, 1 December 2005, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 5 December 2005. It was answered by Caroline Flint (Labour) on Thursday, 15 December 2005 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob

Question: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) have been notified in each year since the disease was first recognised; and how many of these resulted in (a) deaths from definite vCJD and (b) deaths from probable vCJD.

Answer

The information requested is shown in the table.

Case reports and deaths from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) from 1995 to date
		Deaths
	vCJD cases reported	Definite	Probable
1995	8	3	0
1996	9	9	1
1997	13	10	0
1998	20	16	2
1999	16	15	0
2000	29	24	4
2001	21	13	7
2002	15	5	12
2003	16	9	9
2004	6	3	6
2005	6	2	3
Total	159	109	44
Note: There is no correlation between reports and deaths in the columns in the table for any one year as reporting, diagnosis and death in any one case may not occur in the same year. Source: National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit (NCJDSU), Edinburgh.
⁽⁸⁾ To 5 December 2005.

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