§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what is the range of ages of the current 20 cases of the new strain of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease referred to by Dr. James Ironside of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease surveillance unit, Edinburgh, on 14 June. [33835]
§ Mr. HoramEleven cases of the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have been confirmed by the CJD surveillance unit. The ages at death—current age in the case of the patient who is still alive—of these patients ranged between 18 and 42 years.