Where can I obtain more epidemiological information or statistics regarding nvCJD?
Further information about the disease can be obtained from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 1600 Clifton Road Atlanta, Georgia 30333 Phone: 404-639-3091 Website: http://www.cdc.gov/ Is it true that individuals diagnosed with hemochromatosis can now donate? FDA has always allowed individuals diagnosed with hemochromatosis to donate blood. However, FDA is now allowing variances to the requirements that blood establishments 1) label such blood with the donor’s disorder, and 2) have a physician examine the donor at the time of donation if less than eight weeks has passed since the previous donation. These variances are specific for individuals with hereditary hemochromatosis. The existing regulations require that blood establishments using blood collected during therapeutic bleedings label these units with the disease that necessitated the therapeutic bleeding (21 CFR Part 640.3 (d)) and limit the frequency of whole blood coll
