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Written question asked by Jason McCartney (Conservative) on Tuesday, 3 May 2011, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 5 May 2011. It was answered by Anne Milton (Conservative) on Tuesday, 10 May 2011 on behalf of the Department of Health.


CJD

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people died from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in England in each of the last five years.
Answer

The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease Research and Surveillance Unit (NCJDRSU) has provided the following information about deaths from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). This information is available on NCJDRSU website at:"www.cjd.ed.ac.uk"

United Kingdom definite and probable vCJD deaths 2005 to 2010
Number of Deaths
2005 5
2006 5
2007 5
2008 1
2009 3
2010 3

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
54620; 527 c1153W
Session
2010-12
Subjects
Death CJD
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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