VARIANT CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB DISEASE
CURRENT DATA (FEBRUARY 2010)
| COUNTRY | TOTAL NUMBER OF PRIMARY CASES
(NUMBER ALIVE) |
TOTAL NUMBER OF SECONDARY CASES: BLOOD
TRANSFUSION
(NUMBER ALIVE) |
CUMULATIVE RESIDENCE IN UK > 6 MONTHS DURING PERIOD 1980-1996 |
| UK | 169 (4) | 3 (0) | 172 |
| France | 25 (1) | - | 1 |
| Republic of Ireland | 4 (0) | - | 2 |
| Italy | 2 (1) | - | 0 |
| USA | 3† (0) | - | 2 |
| Canada | 1 (0) | - | 1 |
| Saudi Arabia | 1 (1) | - | 0 |
| Japan | 1* (0) | - | 0 |
| Netherlands | 3 (0) | - | 0 |
| Portugal | 2 (0) | - | 0 |
| Spain | 5 (0) | - | 0 |
† the third US patient with vCJD was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and has lived permanently in the United States since late 2005. According to the US case-report, the patient was most likely infected as a child when living in Saudi Arabia.
*the case from Japan had resided in the UK for 24 days in the period 1980-1996.