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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Study data from J.P. Brandel and co-authors update knowledge of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
May 19th, 2009
"Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was first reported in the United Kingdom in 1996. Since then, the majority of cases have been observed in the United Kingdom where there was a major epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy," scientists in Paris, France report. "France was the second country affected. To address the hypothesis of the involvement of a common strain of agent, we have compared clinical, neuropathological, and biochemical data on vCJD patients from both countries. In France and the United Kingdom, epidemiological and clinical data were obtained from analysis of medical records and direct interview of the family of the patients using the same...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-05-19)
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