Call for inquiry into Kent CJD cluster

05 August 1997

Call for inquiry into Kent CJD cluster

THE House of Commons health committee chairman has called for a judicial inquiry into the cluster of cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) around Ashford, Kent.

There have been six deaths in the area, the latest confirmed yesterday when it was announced that the wife of a farm-worker had died from CJD.