Thursday, October 29, 2009

RES: NOT: Letters from CDC in '92 advising against blood donation

http://www.cfs-news.org/joan.htm


These letters, on the site created by Roger Burns, are to a woman named Joa=
n
Irvine. They are from the CDC. The more damning of the two is from Dr
Reeves; he cautions her against donating blood because of =B3 a possible
infectious agent=B2.

It seems appropriate, in light of today=B9s proceedings =AD and those
anticipated tomorrow =AD that these letters be revisited.

Joan was a tireless campaigner and a charming writer. She eventually took
her own life in September of 1996, a night hard impossible to forget for
those of us on the old CFS-L & CFIDS-L lists who had come to know her.

I hope that these can be well used.

In memory of Joan,


Jean Harrison

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