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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.
Emerging infectious diseases - 1 Jan 2000
Holman R C, Khan A S, Belay E D, Schonberger L B
Abstract excerpt
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 publish...
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