Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)

There have been two confirmed cases of new variant CJD in Ireland to date. The first concerned a woman who had lived in England for 20 years. Given the long incubation period of variant CJD, the probability is that the disease was not contracted in Ireland. The second concerned a 24 year old Dublin male. The probability is that he contracted it before the current very strict controls on the sale of meat in Ireland were brought into force in 1996. A third suspected case arose in June of this year concerning a young man in a Dublin hospital.

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