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- Title
Fear of BSE risks could hit US blood banks.
- Authors
Wadman, Meredith
- Abstract
Reports that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering banning people who have visited Great Britain since 1980 from donating blood. Views of the FDA's Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Advisory Committee; Opposition from blood bank leaders; Concerns about transmitting new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD); Number of vCJD cases in Britain; Possible impact of a loss of blood donors.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNITED States. Food &; Drug Administration; CREUTZFELDT-Jakob disease; BLOOD donors; RISK management in blood banks; GOVERNMENT policy; DISEASES
- Publication
Nature, 1999, Vol 397, Issue 6718, p376
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/16978