In January, the Department of Health issued its latest monthly information on the numbers of known cases of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.
The position, as at 5 January 2007, was as follows:
Deaths from definite vCJD (confirmed): 112
Deaths from probable vCJD (without neuropathological confirmation): 46
Deaths from probable vCJD (neuropathological confirmation pending): 0
Number of deaths from definite or probable vCJD (as above): 158
Number of probable vCJD cases still alive: 7
Total number of definite or probable vCJD (dead and alive): 165
The February table was scheduled to be published as CSJ went to press.
