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Red Cross wants tighter restrictions on blood donors
January 17, 2001
Concerns over mad cow disease
Web posted at: 10:16 AM EST (1516 GMT)
By Pete Hartogs
CNN Medical ProducerWASHINGTON (CNN) -- The American Red Cross will ask an advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review expanding restrictions on who can donate blood and tighten limits already in place, the donor agency said Wednesday.
Because of concerns that Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), the human form of mad cow disease, might be transmitted through blood products, the FDA currently will not allow people who have lived in Britain for six months or more, from 1980 to 1996, to donate blood. There has been no evidence to date that it can be transmitted through blood transfusions and no cases of mad cow disease have been found in the United States.
A form of the disease has been found in Europe, so the American Red Cross supports expanding the restriction to include people who have lived in France and Western Europe. The agency also believes the restriction on the UK should be tightened to less than six months and include any time period from 1980 to the present.
The advisory committee to the FDA will meet Thursday and make recommendations about further restrictions.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is the human form of mad cow disease, which first appeared in the United Kingdom and is now spreading slowly through Europe. CJD destroys the brain and has killed 88 people in England, one in Ireland, and three in France since it first appeared in the 1990s. Scientists believe people contract CJD by eating meat from the sick animals.
Researchers are still uncertain if mad cow disease can be transmitted through blood, and some in the medical community have argued that expanding the ban to cover France, Germany and other European countries is not the answer.
"The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply," said Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist from the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics. "It's still not clear you can get it from blood transfusions."
He's also concerned that current restrictions for the UK are not tight enough.
"All you have to do is pass through Heathrow and eat a bad hamburger," he explained. "We're not sure six months makes any sense." Caplan chairs an advisory committee on blood availability with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His comments represent his personal opinion, not the opinion of the committee.
The American Red Cross estimates that expanding the restriction on who can give blood would reduce the current number of blood donors by 5 percent to 6 percent.
Source URL: http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/01/17/blood.madcow/index.html
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Since when was the ARC such an advocate for tighter restrictions? This is just posturing before the feds to look like they're responsive to safety issues, but it's so they can get out of the FDA fines and restrictions.
> "The more you start prohibiting donors, the more you are going to have less blood in the supply,"
OK, but the less you start prohibiting donors, the less you will lack more blood in the supply and the more you are going to have more or less more blood rather than less.
not fair -- you guys know the score ... As did all the instrumentalists this evening ...
Nothing like posting your blood articles and going out in good faith having done what one could ...
I'll ALWAYS post the Canadian news -- within 48 hours -- on the Canada Chapter, okay BigM?
With love,
(It's that sort of evening ... the reed section & a flute)
Chris.
> (It's that sort of evening ... the reed section & a flute)
I'll pick you up after work.
Hi, I would like to introduce myself, I'm the wife of Heamophiliac who got infected with HIV and HCV in Nov 1982, with blood from American co. He has also had a recall letter for Factor VIII he was treated with. Recall was due to one of the donors being diagnosed with vCJD. We live in the UK but I myself am from the Republic of Ireland and am very interested in what's happening with their public inquiry. We're trying to get more information into what happened all those years ago, and I was told you were the people to get in touch with. Mrs Cardavar pointed me in this direction.
You've come to the right place. The Blood Trail is full of historical documents/articles that describe the failings of the past and the results of the contamination of the worlds blood supply.Check out Budges site.
a bump and a drip!
Quite frankly, I can't believe I made it IN to work ... and early too.
Never mind ... Free Dominion.
For some reason, I was thinking it was an FR chapter.
Going to drop the link on my profile.
> Going to drop the link on my profile.
Yeah, I took a look. It's not helpful.
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