National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit

HC Deb 22 April 1998 vol 310 cc615-6W

Helen Jackson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health when he expects to publish the sixth annual report of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit. [39417]

Mr. Dobson

The National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit's sixth annual report has been published today. Copies have been placed in the Library. The report documents the Unit's findings in relation to sporadic, familial and iatrogenic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) up to 30 April 1997 and in relation to new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD) up to 1 January 1998.