The discovery of ‘new variant’ Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was announced in March 1996. By mid-1997, several lines of evidence linked vCJD with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the ...

Since 1997 in the UK it has been possible to identify patients who have received blood components from donors who subsequently developed variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD). Two of the ...