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>From NEWSMAX.COM
>>>Well ... "Western Europe" ... since 1980 ... so much for the American
Expeditionary Forces ... and how many MILLIONs of them are there that spent time in
some part of the Old World? Eating and drinking and drinking and eating and ...
should we be alert to a new syndrome? A<>E<>R <<<
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Red Cross Takes 'Mad Cow' Precautions
NewsMax.com Wires
Thursday, Jan. 18, 2001
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The American Red Cross intends to ban blood donations from people
who have lived anywhere in Western Europe since 1980 in an effort to shield the
blood supply from the human form of "mad cow" disease, USA Today reported Wednesday.
"This will have a very serious impact," Red Cross President Bernadine Healy told the
newspaper. She estimated a loss of about 6 percent of donors, or 360,000 people.
The Red Cross, which collects about half of the nation's blood supply, said it would
urge a federal panel this week to make the restrictions apply to all blood-
collection agencies.
America's Blood Centers, which collects the other half, said the proposal would be
devastating.
"We would lose 25 percent of New York City's blood supply," said spokeswoman Melissa
McMillan.
But after watching HIV spread through the blood supply in the 1980s, Red Cross
officials would rather err on the side of safety.
The brain-destroying disease called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, or vCJD, has
killed 88 people in England, one in Ireland and three in France since the mid-1990s.
The disease is a human form of mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy,
which began in the United Kingdom and has spread throughout Europe. Scientists
believe that people get vCJD by eating BSE-tainted meat.
See more articles about mad cow disease.
Copyright 2001 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.
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"democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist
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taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between
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