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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit

My right honourable friend the Minister of State, Department of Health (Dawn Primarolo) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement. The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit's (NCJDSU) 15th annual report was published on 30 November. The report documents the unit's findings in relation to sporadic, familial and iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) up to 31 December 2006. The report has been placed in the Library and is available on the NCJDSU's website at www.cjd.ed.ac.uk.