§ Dr. BrandTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the incidence of new cases of new variant CJD for each of the last five years. [102310]
§ Yvette CooperThe information requested is as follows:
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Year Number of cases of variant CJD 19991 10 1998 17
Year Numbers of cases of variant CJD 1997 10 1996 10 1995 3 1 This figure is subject to retrospective adjustment as diagnoses are confirmed. The Department publishes, on a monthly basis, figures for the number of deaths of definite and probable cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease of all types in the United Kingdom. The next press release will be issued on 7 February 2000 and copies will be available in the Library.