Blood donations clampdown follows vCJD
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Blood donation restrictions were tightened today after warnings in Britain that vCJD can be transmitted through transfusions. Anyone who lived in Britain for more than one year between 1980 and 1996 will not be able to give blood from November.
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A study aimed at determining if some children with sickle cell anemia could be weaned off blood transfusion therapy has been halted because two young patients who stopped getting the procedure suffered strokes and others developed a high chance of strokes.
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Mike Waites Health Correspondent, SCIENTISTS have identified a new strain of vCJD which could strike people previously unaffected by the disease.
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PARIS  - A donor whose blood was used to transfuse 10 people and to manufacture medicines has been identified as France's eighth known victim of the human equivalent of mad cow disease, health officials announced Thursday.
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An independent public inquiry is to be held into the supply of contaminated NHS blood to haemophilia patients.
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Â· Iraq and Afghanistan casualties to get HIV tests  Â· Poor record keeping at US field hospitals blamed
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Proposals to limit the use of tissues taken from living patients have been overthrown.
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Peruvian officials have closed the country's 240 blood banks after at least four people were infected with HIV from blood transfusions in a public hospital.
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WEDNESDAY, Aug. 18 (HealthDayNews) -- A generation ago, one in every 100 units of donated blood in the United States passed HIV or the hepatitis C virus to an unknowing recipient.
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Scientists show how the proteins that cause vCJD bypass the body's defences and enter the bloodstream.
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Blood infected with West Nile virus was given to a Navajo County man during surgery, a blood bank official confirmed Wednesday. The man later died of the illness.
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The Haemophilia Society has issued an information pack to its members about vCJD today to allay fears over the Governmentâs announcement that they will be sending letters
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Families will lose the right to block   their relatives' wish to donate their organs under reforms,   which come into force on Friday.
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China has made it illegal to buy and sell blood, the state-run Xinhua news agency has reported. Amid fears that China faces a huge HIV epidemic, this is the country&#39;s first law targeting the disease.
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afrol News, 8 December - Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang has demanded an apology from the South African National Blood Service after it was known that it used race to determine the risk of blood by its donors.
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World News &gt; Durban, Dec 6 : A major row in South Africa over profiling of blood donors according to race intensified today with the disclosure that blood donated by President Thabo Mbeki three years ago had been destroyed instead of being used.
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More than 460 people in Northern Ireland are being warned that they could have been exposed to vCJD through blood plasma products.