-Caveat Lector-
This article a portion herein is absolutely false.
It reads no reports here of mad cow disease, which is a lie.
A couple of months ago my son had a friend who had been in Scotland who
died from Mad Cow Disease.
In checking this out, and when you do stuff on the telephone always tell
the person answering you are doing a story or are a reporter, and you
find you get better treatment for everybody want's their one minute of
fame and glory.
So end result, there were two cases of mad cow disease in this area, and
it is nothing unusual.
The individual who told me this, was an officer with the Health
Department for I went direct to the source.
Is there a problem with the blood once again; now homosexuals are
angered because the question is asked in so many words, are you a
homosexual and they feel victimized?
This is when they try to donate blood.
Would I want blood from anyone who was homosexual? No way, in fact
recently when I had to have a transfusion I was guaranteed the blood was
safe and my DNA would not change, for I could wake up black tomorrow and
not know it?
So much for panic but something is wrong here....very very wrong. This
mad cow disease has been a farce from the start - maybe dometstic
sabotage for who got hurt the worst - McDonalds? Slaughtering cattle
with hoof and mouth disease and mad cow disease.
Wonder - estrogen is made from horse serum and now I read where horses
can ge A
IDS......how do horses get AIDS....breakdown in immune system and how
do cats get leukemia - something they are fed, like this garbage they
call fish cat foods, etc.
Saba
Tighter blood-donor rules backedRecommendation aims to reduce mad cow
disease risk
ASSOCIATED PRESS
BETHESDA, Md., June 28 � A federal advisory committee recommended
tighter restrictions on blood donors Thursday in an effort to protect
America's blood supply from Europe's mad cow disease.
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The FDA estimates the proposed plan would reduce the risk of mad cow
disease entering the blood supply by up to 91 percent.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS came despite warnings from health
officials that tougher restrictions would cause blood shortages.
If the recommendations are followed by the Food and Drug
Administration, they could reduce the available blood donors in the
United States by up to 5.3 percent, according to agency estimates. They
would reduce the risk of mad cow disease entering the blood supply by up
to 91 percent, according to the same estimates.
There have been no identified cases of mad cow disease in
the United States, either in cattle or in humans. There is no evidence
that the human variety can be spread through blood transfusions, but the
panel made its recommendations to cut any risk of such an occurrence.
Breaking Bioethics columnist Art Caplan, Ph.D., weighs in on the
controversy
The vote came after the American Red Cross had announced
it intended to institute even tighter restriction in September. The Red
Cross collects about half of the 14 million units of blood donated in
the United States annually.
"Countless lives will be lost" if blood supplies are cut
further, Dr. Jeffrey Doughlin, a surgeon at Jamaica Hospital in New
York, told the FDA advisory panel. "We already are dealing with a
dwindling supply."
PROPOSED LIMITS
The proposal, approved by the committee by a vote of
10-7, recommends that donors be excluded who have spent a cumulative
three months or more in Britain from 1980 through the end of 1996. It
also would exclude donors who have had a cumulative time of travel or
residence of five years or more in any other European country.
Additionally, the proposal recommends that American
military personnel or dependents who have spent six months or more on a
base in Europe from the years 1980 through the end of 1996 be excluded
from blood donation.
Also excluded would be people who have received blood
transfusions in Britain any time from 1980 to the present.
Acknowledging concerns about the impact on the blood
supply, the committee added an amendment that calls for a national donor
recruitment campaign.
Current regulations forbid collecting blood from donors
who have lived in Britain for six months or in some European countries
for 10 years.
FDA officials are concerned that people who have traveled
or lived in Europe, particularly Britain, may have eaten beef
contaminated by bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease.
Studies have shown that the disease can be transmitted to humans in meat
and, years later, cause a brain disease that rots holes in the brain
called new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD.
Britain was the center of an outbreak of mad Cow disease
and at least 91 people there developed vCJD.
Although it has not been proven, some health experts fear
that people who have eaten contaminated beef might transmit the disease
through donated blood.
The FDA is not bound by advisory committee
recommendations, but usually follows them.
A competing proposal containing tighter restrictions was
put forward by the Red Cross.
RED CROSS PLAN
FDA officials said the Red Cross' proposed restrictions -
even tougher than the panel recommended - could reduce the number of
blood donors in the United States by up to 9 percent. East Coast areas
would be hardest hit, with the blood supply cut by up to 35 percent in
New York City, officials said.
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Part of the New York impact would come from a plan to
reject some 145,000 blood units that the state now receives from Europe.
The Red Cross plan would reject donors who have a
cumulative time in Europe of six months from 1980 to the present, or
three months in Britain.
Jackie Fredrick of the Red Cross said the organization
would start using its plans at its nationwide blood centers this fall.
"We believe our donor deferral plan is cautious and
prudent," she said. Fredericks said the Red Cross also would start a
national drive to recruit new donors.
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