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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

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Disease data from ECDC surveillance Atlas

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Publication

Variant Creutzfeldt−Jakob disease - Annual Epidemiological Report 2016 [2014 data]

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Publication

EuroCJD network meeting 2013

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sensitivity to biases of case-control studies on medical procedures, particularly surgery and blood transfusion, and risk of creutzfeldt-jakob disease

2012

Publication

Questions on variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and blood transfusion

risk assessment -

Publication

Variant Creutzfeldt−Jakob disease - Annual Epidemiological Report 2016 [2014 data]

surveillance report -

Publication

EuroCJD network meeting 2013

meeting report -

Peer-Reviewed Publication

Sensitivity to biases of case-control studies on medical procedures, particularly surgery and blood transfusion, and risk of creutzfeldt-jakob disease

2012

Publication

Questions on variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and blood transfusion

risk assessment -
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Apr 2015

Event

Diagnostic workshop on Real-time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC) to enhance MS capacity to diagnose CJD

27 Apr 2015 - 28 Apr 2015
Edinburgh
Sep 2015

Event

European CJD Surveillance Experts Meeting

17 Sep 2015 - 18 Sep 2015
Budapest, Hungary
Jan 2013

Event

Tonsil Biopsy Training Day

31 Jan 2013
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Jun 2013

Event

Annual EuroCJD network meeting 2013

6 Jun 2013 - 7 Jun 2013
Oslo, Norway

Facts about variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

EU case definition

Disease data from ECDC Surveillance Atlas - variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Surveillance and disease data

EU case definition

The EU case definition for variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD)

Facts

Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) is a relatively new and rare neurological disease, classified as a Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy (TSE).

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Disease programmes and networks

European Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Network (EuroCJD)

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European Food- and Waterborne Diseases and Zoonoses Network (FWD-Net)

Eurosurveillance

10 April 2008 - Two cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease reported in Spain in 2007 and 2008
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18 January 2007 - Fourth case of transfusion-associated vCJD infection in the United Kingdom
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07 December 2006 - Third case of vCJD reported in the United States
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29 June 2006 - Second probable case of vCJD in the Netherlands
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01 June 2006 - Evidence of a new human genotype susceptible to variant CJD
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