Correction to my last post

[Guest guest]

In

http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AdvisoryCommittees/CommitteesMeetingMaterials/Blood\

VaccinesandOtherBiologics/BloodProductsAdvisoryCommittee/UCM225388.pdf

" Blood products Advisory Committee " (July 26, 2010 meeting)

The discussion on Babesia (a Lyme co-infection) begins on page 129. The

discussion on Lyme Disease itself begins on page 148.

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Babesia microti became nationally reportable as of January 2011.

" The bottom line is, people can meet all of the criteria for donating blood

despite being infected and infective. " (on page 166)

" For tick-borne, we’re up in [the thousands] in terms of what has been

documented, several thousand. Even though babesiosis hasn’t been officially

notifiable -- and it will be -- we have already had cases for years voluntarily

reported to us, and we are in the thousands. But this is without a standard case

definition. We are in the [hundreds] range for the documented

transfusion-associated cases. "

[Note: according to the text of House Bill 272, Pennsylvania alone had 4,950

cases of Lyme Disease in 2009.]

" But there’s no doubt that babesiosis has been a major contributing factor for

a number of the deaths. " (on page 177 - said by a CDC person)