A note on the epidemiology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob syndrome
Alpérovitch, A.; Delasnerie-Lauprêtre, N.; Brandel, J.P.
Revue Neurologique (Paris) 154(2): 139-141
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0035-3787 PMID: 9773034 Document Number: 494195
The annual incidence of sporadic Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease has been stable for the last 30 years. The new variant affecting young adults which appeared in the United Kingdom (20 cases) and France (1 case) in 1994 is due to the same infectious agent which causes bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Epidemiological data are still insufficient for a precise prediction of epidemics of the new variant mainly due to the duration of the incubation period of the disease.