05/95 06/94 09/95 11/95 01/95 01/96 11/95 12/94 01/96 01/96 02/94 01/96 01/96 07/94 01/96 02/96 08/94 03/96 02/96 03/95 03/96 02/96 01/95 02/96 05/96 08/95 03/96 06/96 01/94 04/96 06/96 01/95 07/96 09/96 07/95 09/96 11/96 12/95 * 02/97 12/95 06/97 02/97 12/94 07/97 03/97 10/95 05/97 03/97 03/96 02/97 05/97 03/94 06/97 05/97 03/96 09/95 06/97 01/96 06/97 07/97 11/96 10/97 10/97 10/96 11/97 12/97 01/96 09/96 Date of death Date onset Date vCJD of symptoms confirmed* 01/98 02/97 03/98 03/98 09/95 05/98 04/98 03/96 06/98 05/98 05/96 05/98 08/98 07/97 10/98 08/98 07/97 10/98 10/98 05/96 10/98 10/98 10/97 11/98 10/98 11/97 11/98 10/98 07/97 11/98 10/98 11/97 12/98 11/98 11/97 02/99 11/98 04/98 02/99 11/98 03/98 * 12/98 05/98 10/99 12/98 08/97 02/99 12/98 12/97 03/99 01/99 02/98 02/99 02/99 12/97 09/99 02/99 12/97 06/99 02/99 10/97 05/99 07/99 05/98 07/99 08/99 06/98 08/99 08/99 01/99 11/99 09/99 12/96 09/99 10/99 07/98 01/00 10/99 01/99 12/99 11/99 05/98 12/99 01/00 04/99 02/00 *Cases not confirmed neuropathologically and therefore classed as "probable vCJD"Table 2; vCJD cases in the UK, by age at death
Age at death Number of cases 0 - 9 0 10 - 19 8 20 - 29 23 30 - 39 14 40 - 49 3 50 - 59 4 59+ 0 Total 52Forty nine of the fifty two 'definite' cases to date have been methionine/methionine homozygous at codon 129 for the prion protein, results on one of the remaining cases are still awaited, and in the remaining 2 cases no blood was taken on which to conduct the appropriate genetic tests. To date the National CJD Surveillance Unit has no record of a case of variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease having arisen as a consequence of medical or surgical intervention.
Andrew Evans, Lords Staff, PA News
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, a health minister, was cited as saying in a response during a Lords debate that it may be "at least a year or two" before scientists can predict whether the variant of Creutzfeld Jakob Disease, the human equivalent of BSE, will become widespread in the UK population, and that there have been 67 confirmed or probable deaths in the past five years, nearly half of them occurring in people in their 20s, but it is not known how long the incubation period is. said statistical modellers were analysing current trends, adding, "But it may be at least a year or two yet before we are in a position to rule out a significant number of people eventually succumbing to the disease." Hunt was further cited as saying the first results of separate tests on some 18,000 tonsil and appendix samples, to test for the prevalence of CJD in Scotland and South West England, would be available later this month. Results from the first 2,000 samples would be reported to a meeting of medical and scientific experts, under the auspices of the Medical Research Council and the Health Department.