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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If the South African National Blood Service were to stop using race as one of its criteria for screening potential donors for HIV, the number of people receiving HIV-contaminated blood could rise from two or three a year to as many as 100, the service&#39;s
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A man is being treated in a Dublin hospital with a suspected case of new variant CJD.
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The government has halted a national sickle-cell study because two children suffered strokes and more than a dozen others developed dangerous conditions that put them at high risk of having a stroke.
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&quot;We want a public inquiry, but thatâs the one thing they wonât let us have. In any other case, in any other country, each one of these things - HIV, hepatitis C or CJD - would have warranted a public inquiry&quot; - Andy Gunn, Haemophilia suffer.
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Concern is voiced after the number of people giving blood in Scotland dropped by 10,000.
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A man has lost his wife and sister to a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) which strikes one in a million people. Barry Harper&#39;s wife Phyllis, from Sandhurst, Gloucestershire, died last month after battling
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Dozens of hospital wards across the UK have been forced to close due to outbreaks of winter virus
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Some blood donors are threatening to stop donating their blood after the South African National Blood Services (SANBS) revealed its policy of racially profiling donors.
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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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One of Australia&#39;s biggest hospitals, Royal Melbourne, is contacting 1056 people who have undergone brain or spinal surgery in the past 18 months after a patient died this year of the rare Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).
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A retired Chinese doctor who helped expose blood-buying schemes that infected thousands with HIV has been put under house arrest to stop her from traveling to Washington to be honored by a charity backed by Sen. Hillary Clinton, a friend said Monday.
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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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These are tough times for the Salvation Army&#39;s bell-ringers. On Nov. 25, giant discounter Target Corp. (TGT ) began enforcing a longstanding ban that prevents charities from collecting donations outside its stores.
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Blood donated by South African President Thabo Mbeki was destroyed because he did not complete a mandatory questionnaire and his race placed him in a high-risk category, a newspaper reported yesterday.
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Hospitals across the Midlands are trying to trace hundreds of patients who may have been exposed to brain-wasting vCJD through blood plasma products.
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China's parliament passed a law  Saturday banning the buying or selling of blood to prevent the  spread of AIDS and outlawing discrimination against victims of  infectious diseases, state media said.