- Hello Jeff,
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- This is not good at all. Seems to be a new trend now,
children coming down with nvCJD.
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- Maybe the previous reports about school lunches and baby
food is true.
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- Patty
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- From ProMED-mail <promed@promedmail.org Eurosurveillance
Weekly - Issue 41, 12 Oct 2000 [edited] http://www.eurosurv.org/2000/000928.htm
10-16-00
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- Incidence of [New] Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
in Children in the UK ----------------
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- The identification of 3 childhood cases of [new] variant
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) in the United Kingdom was reported in
the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit's annual report, recently summarised
in Eurosurveillance Weekly (Handysides S. Active surveillance of rare and
serious diseases in children. Eurosurveillance Weekly 2000; 4: 000928
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- Full details of the study, in which paediatricians throughout
the UK report all cases of progressive intellectual and neurological deterioration
(PIND) in children to investigators who follow them up, have now been published
in the Lancet (Verity CM, Nicoll A, Will RG, Devereux G, Stellitano L.
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in UK children: a national surveillance
study. Lancet 2000; 356: 1224-7). The active surveillance scheme is intended
to ensure that all cases of childhood vCJD are ascertained, and the authors
are reassured that only 3 cases out of 655 discussed have vCJD.
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- Nevertheless, they note that the 3 cases were all reported
in the most recent of the 3 years of surveillance, and express concern
that further childhood cases may appear.
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- (Reported by Stuart Handysides <shandysi@phls.org.uk,
PHLS Communicabe Disease Surveillance Centre)
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