CJD: Diagnosis

(asked on 25th April 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of the reliability of diagnostic testing of blood samples for vCJD.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
This question was answered on 2nd May 2024

Clinical diagnostic testing for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (vCJD) is provided by the National Health Service, but there is currently no licensed blood screening test for vCJD, although there is ongoing research in this field. The National CJD Research and Surveillance Unit is involved in developing specialist investigations for vCJD, in collaboration with colleagues in Europe and internationally, with further information available at the following link:

https://www.cjd.ed.ac.uk/surveillance/diagnosis-and-testing

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