Holman R C, Khan A S, Belay E D, Schonberger L B
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Emerg Infect Dis. 1996 Oct-Dec;2(4):333-7. doi: 10.3201/eid0204.960409.
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 published estimates of the crude incidence of CJD worldwide and has continued to be stable from 1979 through 1994. The number of CJD deaths in persons
最近英国报告了一群异常年轻的克雅氏病(CJD)病例后,我们研究了美国CJD的发病趋势和当前发病率。我们发现,美国经年龄调整的CJD死亡率与全球公布的CJD粗发病率估计值相似,并且从1979年到1994年一直保持稳定。CJD死亡人数…… (原文最后不完整)