Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease - Annual Epidemiological Report for 2021

A single case of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was reported in the EU/EEA in 2021. VCJD disease remains extremely rare. This is consistent with the current understanding of the underlying epidemiology of vCJD, and with the positive impact of risk mitigation measures introduced in the EU from the late 1980s to remove potentially infectious animal material from the food chain to prevent infections in humans.