Fear of BSE risks could hit US blood banks

Meredith Wadman

Nature, 1999, vol. 397, issue 6718, 376-376

Abstract: washington US citizens who have spent time in Britain since 1980 might be barred from donating blood. The move is an attempt by the US authorities to reduce the theoretical risk of transmission of new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Date: 1999
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