Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

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The incidence of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is monitored in the UK by the National CJD surveillance unit based at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, Scotland. The unit brings together a team of clinical neurologists, neuropathologists and scientists specialising in the investigation of this disease. The following figures are based on their work..

MONTHLY CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE STATISTICS
Definite and probable CJD cases in the UK:


Referral of suspect CJD
Deaths of Definite and Probable CJD
Year Referrals Year Sporadic Iatrogenic Familial GSS *vCJD Total Deaths
1990 53 1990 28 5 0 0 - 33
1991 75 1991 32 1 3 0 - 36
1992 96 1992 45 2 5 1 - 53
1993 78 1993 37 4 3 2 - 46
1994 118 1994 53 1 4 3 - 61
1995 87 1995 35 4 2 3 3 47
1996 134 1996 40 4 2 4 10 60
1997 161 1997 60 6 4 1 10 81
1998 154 1998 63 3 4 1 18 89
1999 170 1999 62 6 2 0 15 85
2000 178 2000 49 1 2 1 28 81
2001 179 2001 57 3 3 2 20 85
2002 163 2002 73 0 4 1 17 95
2003 162 2003 77 5 4 2 18 106
2004 112 2004 47 1 2 1 9 60
2005* 8 2005* 4 0 0 1 0 5
Total 1928 Total Deaths 763 47 43 24 140 1025

The following graphs show two interesting points.





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