Blood Safety

West Nile prompts rethinking of blood donors

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 10th, 2004

People with signs of West Nile infection, including headache and fever, should be barred from donating blood until nearly 2 months after the symptoms wane, federal health officials proposed.

A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official briefed the agency's Blood Products advisory committee about the recommendation. Depending on its effect on the blood supply, the guidance could be finished as early as this fall.

Already, West Nile is racing through this summer's hot spots, sickening and killing people in Arizona, California and Colorado. Sensitive tests have tagged 61 potentially infected donors, whose blood donations were yanked from shelves, Hira...

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