Published Date: 1999-07-15 23:50:00
Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> CJD (new var.), human - Ireland
Archive Number: 19990715.1192

CJD (NEW VARIANT), HUMAN - IRELAND
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See Also

CJD (new var.) - UK: update Apr.99 990415224440
CJD (new var.) - UK: update Nov.98 990107101241
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 05:55:41 +0800
From: Chan Yow Cheong <chanyowcheong@pacific.net.sg>
ProMED-mail Regional Moderator for Asia
Source: Health Canada Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, 12-18 Jul 1999
<http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/main/lcdc/web/hp_eng.html>

The Republic of Ireland has become the third country to report a case of
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD). St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin
reported that a patient who had undergone a gastroscopy earlier this year
was diagnosed with nvCJD on May 31, 1999. The scope used on the
nvCJD-infected patient was subsequently used on 49 patients who are being
contacted to alleviate any concerns they may have over possible infection.
Although the patient was not identified by the hospital, it is understood
she is a mother in her 30s who had been resident in England during the
high-risk bovine spongiform encephalopathy period. CJD has been shown to be
transmitted from one infected patient to another via certain neurosurgical
procedures. There is no evidence of nvCJD being passed through instruments
used in non-brain procedures.
Reference: The Lancet (Vol. 353, No. 9171, June 26, 1999)
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