Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in the United States, 1979-1994: Using National Mortality Data to Assess the Possible Occurrence of Variant Cases | Zendy

Robert C. Holman | Zendy; Ali S. Khan | Zendy; Ermias D. Belay | Zendy; Lawrence B. Schonberger | Zendy

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in the United States, 1979-1994: Using National Mortality Data to Assess the Possible Occurrence of Variant Cases

Author(s) -

Robert C. Holman,

Ali S. Khan,

Ermias D. Belay,

Lawrence B. Schonberger

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

emerging infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.54

H-Index - 226

eISSN - 1080-6059

pISSN - 1080-6040

DOI - 10.3201/eid0204.960409

Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , disease , medicine , demography , cluster (spacecraft) , creutzfeldt jakob syndrome , epidemiology , pediatrics , mortality rate , pathology , prion protein , physics , sociology , computer science , optics , programming language

After a cluster of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) cases among unusually young patients was reported recently from the United Kingdom, we examined trends and the current incidence of CJD in the United States. We found that the age-adjusted CJD death rate in the United States is similar to published estimates of the crude incidence of CJD worldwide and has continued to be stable from 1979 through 1994. The number of CJD deaths in persons

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