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There are no suspected cases of vCJD in Britain today.
Already, three cases of vCJD have been reported in France.
Worldwide, there have been 110 cases of vCJD, 106 in Britain, three in France and one in Ireland.
A previous cluster in a Leicestershire village is thought to link four cases of vCJD.
The first three cases of vCJD have been reported in France.
So far, France only has two confirmed cases of vCJD; Germany has reported two suspected cases.
Only four cases of vCJD are known to have arisen from blood transfusions, and all were in the 1990s, but the MPs' inquiry heard that infections could be more widespread, but not yet causing people to have symptoms.
So far, France has two confirmed cases of vCJD; Germany has two suspected victims.Only a handful of European countries, among them Italy and Norway, are still BSE-free.
The number of confirmed or suspected cases of VCJD this year so far stands at 29, compared with 14 cases in 1999.
Out of 95 cases of vCJD reported in Britain since 1995 (see chart) five occurred there.This clustering of cases has proved a boon to epidemiologists trying to come to grips with the elusive origin and spread of vCJD.
How vCJD can be contracted Almost all of the 177 cases of vCJD – the human form of "mad cow" disease – have been contracted through eating contaminated meat or meat products before the introduction of controls to limit the spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from cattle to people.
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