§ Mr. John LyonsTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what the Government are doing to investigate sporadic CJD. [85388]
§ Ms BlearsOne of the Department of Health-funded National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit's tasks is to identify and to investigate all cases of CJD, including sporadic CJD, in the United Kingdom by clinical examination, clinical investigations, neuropathological examination, genetic analysis, molecular biological studies, collecting basic epidemiological data and carrying out a case-control study. In addition, the UK is a member of the European and Allied Countries Collaborative Study Group, which is investigating the disease within and across European countries.