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Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Toolkit for outbreak response and investigation

Tools that can be useful during an investigation of a European FWD outbreak

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Disease data from ECDC surveillance Atlas

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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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