Blood Safety

Smallpox vaccine recipients should wait to give blood, FDA says

Published in Blood Weekly, January 23rd, 2003

Recipients of the smallpox vaccine should not donate blood for at least 3 weeks after getting the shot, the U.S. government is warning, because that vaccine contains a live virus that might enter the blood supply and endanger other people.

The Food and Drug Administration's blood guidelines come as the government has begun inoculations expected to eventually reach millions of military personnel and health workers. Those two populations also make up the most faithful blood donors.

Included in the FDA's recommendations, which blood banks are supposed to implement immediately:

Recipients of smallpox vaccine should not be allowed to give...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2003-01-23)

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