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Referrals of Suspected CJD Reported by CJDSS¹,
1997-2011² as of January 31, 2011
Year of Reporting	Number of Referrals
¹CJDSS began in April 1998 ²Data before April 1998 are retrospective and partial, data from 1999 to 2009 are complete, and data for 2010 - 2011 are provisional
1997	4
1998	43
1999	63
2000	82
2001	101
2002	103
2003	75
2004	90
2005	97
2006	78
2007	101
2008	100
2009	104
2010	75
2011	4
Total Referrals	1120

**CJD Deaths Reported by CJDSS¹, 1994-2011² as of January 31, 2011**
Deaths of Definite and Probable CJD
¹ CJDSS began in April 1998 ²Data before April 1998 are retrospective and partial, data from 1999 to 2009 are complete, and data for 2009 - 2011 are provisional ³ Final classification of 49 cases from 2009, 2010, 2011 is pending.
Year	Sporadic	Iatrogenic	Familial	GSS	FFI	vCJD	Total
1994	2	0	0	1	0	0	3
1995	3	0	0	0	0	0	3
1996	13	0	0	0	0	0	13
1997	16	0	1	1	0	0	18
1998	22	1	0	1	0	0	24
1999	26	2	2	1	0	0	31
2000	32	0	0	3	0	0	35
2001	27	0	2	1	0	0	30
2002	31	0	2	2	0	1	36
2003	27	1	1	0	0	0	29
2004	42	0	1	0	0	0	43
2005	42	0	0	2	0	0	44
2006	39	0	1	3	1	0	44
2007	34	0	0	4	0	0	38
2008	46	0	1	0	0	0	47
2009	46	0	2	2	0	0	50
2010	19	0	1	0	0	0	20
2011	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Total	467	4	14	21	1	1	508

CJD Cases by Province/Territory

**Incidence of CJD Deaths Reported by CJDSS in Canada as of January 31, 2011**
Year of Death	Total CJD Cases	Population of Canada	Incidence Rate
NOTES: ¹ As of September 2002, CJD cases include both definite and probable cases of CJD ² Data from 1999 to 2009 are complete, and data for 2010 and 2011 are provisional 2010 Population Source: Statistics Canada, Demography Division Final classification of 49 cases from 2009, 2010, 2011 is pending.
1999	31	30,401,286	1.02
2000	35	30,685,730	1.14
2001	30	31,019,020	0.97
2002¹	36	31,353,656	1.15
2003	29	31,639,670	0.92
2004	43	31,940,676	1.35
2005	44	32,245,209	1.36
2006	44	32,576,074	1.35
2007	38	32,931,956	1.15
2008	47	33,327,337	1.41
2009	50	33,739,814	1.48
2010²	20	33,841,500	0.59
2011²	0	34,019,075	0.00

World Wide average occurrence of CJD is approximately 1-2 per million population