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New York faces blood shortage because of BSE fears
By David Usborne in New York
18 July 2001
A proposal to ban all trade in blood between the United States and Europe because of
American fears about the possible spread of mad cow disease from Britain has
prompted warnings of a catastrophic blood shortage in the New York City area next
year.
The new regulations, recommended by a scientific panel last month, could cut the
supply of blood to the city's hospitals by as much as one-third virtually overnight.
As a result, blood centres are scrambling to find ways to expand local donor
programmes.
While the ban would affect all of the US, New York would suffer most of the impact
because it has traditionally imported huge volumes of blood from Europe under an
arrangement known as "Euroblood". About 25 per cent of blood used in transfusions
and supplied to operating theatres in the city is shipped from across the Atlantic.
The consequences of the regulations, which the Food and Drug Administration is
likely to adopt early next year, would be felt even more, however. They would also
ban Americans from giving blood if they had lived in Britain for more than three
months since 1980 or elsewhere in Europe for more than six months. This would mean
the loss of about 33 per cent of the blood currently available to New York
hospitals.
Washington has entered the debate suggesting that some of the shortfall could be
made up by drawing blood from American military personnel stationed in Europe.
Officials say they are confident that US servicemen and women can be insulated from
the risks of infection with new-variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – the human
equivalent of BSE – which is blamed for about 100 deaths in Britain and France.
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