Red Cross Bans Chronic Fatigue Patients From Donating Blood
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The American Red Cross won’t accept blood from people diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome as the U.S. government works to determine if the disorder is tied to a transmissible virus, the group said.
The move, announced yesterday on the Red Cross website, follows by almost four months study findings that tied the condition to an infectious agent called XMRV. More than 1 million Americans have chronic fatigue syndrome, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.