Re: Barb - blood donation

[Guest guest]

It might still be beneficial for demonstrating a probable transfusion

infection case - tho maybe its applicability to the general population

would be discounted due to your asplenia.

At immunesupport numerous people report that the screening

questionnaire is supposed to stop people from donating blood if they

have a CFS or FMS dx - but numerous other people report that they

donated regularly in recent years because CFS/FMS were not on the

questionnaire in their locale. Well, they need to be.

I guess probably no one with power over this stuff is interested in

the connection between CFS and borrelia anyway.

I wonder if the AACFS (not sure thats the right name) does anything to

educate people against donating. If not, they should.

" Barb Peck " <egroups1bp@y...> wrote:

>

> :

> I think I was infected via blood transfusion in the 1970's when

> bloods were mixed from all over the world.

> So, the test run in parallel would not be to confirm b azfelii's

> presence in the USA, but to confirm it's presence in me.

>

> Barb

[Guest guest]

My transfusion was in 1975 before it was even known to screen it

for what's been checked for now - Blood was collected and mixed

from everywhere.

I would guess, from what I know know that this route is probably

the cause of alot of problems that go mis-diagnosed.

I may run the tests in parallel this fall- depends on how complicated

it gets.

Barb

> >

> > :

> > I think I was infected via blood transfusion in the 1970's when

> > bloods were mixed from all over the world.

> > So, the test run in parallel would not be to confirm b azfelii's

> > presence in the USA, but to confirm it's presence in me.

> >

> > Barb