Two cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease reported in Spain in 2007 and 2008

J de Pedro Cuesta

doi:10.2807/ese.13.15.18831-en

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Two cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease reported in Spain in 2007 and 2008
J de Pedro Cuesta¹
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Affiliations: ¹ Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Department of Applied Epidemiology, National Centre of Epidemiology, Madrid, Spain

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Citation style for this article: de Pedro Cuesta J. Two cases of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease reported in Spain in 2007 and 2008. Euro Surveill. 2008;13(15):pii=18831. https://doi.org/10.2807/ese.13.15.18831-en Received: 09 Apr 2008

Abstract

In 2005, the first case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was reported in Spain, in a woman born in 1978 with clinical onset of symptoms in 2004 [1]. She subsequently died in 2005.