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From: The new variant of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease accounts for no relative increase of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mortality rate in the United Kingdom; this fits ill with the new variant being the consequence of consumption of food infected with the agent of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy

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Annual mortality ratio (9 countries). Annual mortality ratios per million (sporadic CJD + nvCJD) for the UK and eight other countries included in the EUROCJD project (see text). Two curves correspond to the UK data, the nvCJD cases being excluded from one of them (broken line). The three other curves summarize the data from the nine countries together: for each year, three values out of the nine observed, are plotted corresponding to the curves Max, for the maximum number, Min for the minimum value and Median (fifth value or, for 1993, the average of fourth and fifth). The last year indicated is 2001 (statistics as at 31 December 2002, 6 March 2003 for France and 3 March 2003 for the UK)

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