Click to view Figure 4. Geographic distribution of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The disorder occurs worldwide with pockets of familial cases in Israel, France, Slovakia, and North America.
Shaded regions indicate countries which have reported cases.
Nevertheless, patients as young as 20 and as old as 90 years of age have been described. Click to view Figure 5. Distribution of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease based on the age of disease onset in a large cohort of French patients.