New panel set up to monitor nvCJD

16 September 1997

New panel set up to monitor nvCJD

THE Government has set up a panel – part of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee (SEAC) – to monitor new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (nvCJD). NvCJD has been linked to BSE.

The panel will be headed by epidemiologist Prof Peter Smith, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It will advise on any trend in the incidence of the new variant.