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new ban - donating blood and chronic fatigue virus

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16 years 3 weeks ago #3035 by gsh
new ban - donating blood and chronic fatigue virus was created by gsh
www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/04/07/blood-donations-chronic-fatigue-virus.html

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16 years 3 weeks ago #3047 by Sandi
Replied by Sandi on topic Re: new ban - donating blood and chronic fatigue virus
People could lie...no way the Red Cross could prove that. How odd!

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16 years 3 weeks ago #3060 by tortie
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I'm very interested in getting tested for this.

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16 years 3 weeks ago #3081 by Sandi
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Can you get tested for that? I thought it was another of those elimination things. I think they can see if you've had the Epstein Barr virus, but that doesn't prove CFS.

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16 years 3 weeks ago #3098 by tortie
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"Detection of an infectious retrovirus, XMRV, in blood cells of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome."

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19815723


"some labs are offering very expensive tests for XMRV,"


chronicfatigue.about.com/b/2009/11/03/xmrv-lab-tests-should-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-patients-get-tested.htm



All this is new news for me. This may also be connected to FM. I sure hope to hear more about this soon.

chronicfatigue.about.com/b/2009/10/28/the-xmrv-discovery-series-index.htm

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16 years 3 weeks ago #3104 by Sandi
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It's new to me too.

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