Risk assessments for CJD

Risk Assessments

Panel advice is based on risk assessments commissioned by the Department of Health:

• Risk Assessment of Exposure to vCJD Infectivity in Blood and Blood Products February 2003
• Risk Assessment for vCJD and Dentistry July 2003
• Assessing the risk of vCJD transmission via surgery: an interim review March 2005
• vCJD risk assessment calculations for a patient with multiple routes of exposure June 2009
• The risk of secondary vCJD Infection of patients receiving a high number of blood transfusions. July 2009
• vCJD in blood recipients with a possible donor in common: conicidence versus causality February 2010

The first version of the Framework document was based on the following risk assessment:

• Risk Assessment for transmission of vCJD via surgical instruments: a modelling approach and numerical scenarios March 2001

Last reviewed: 11 August 2010