BLOOD DONATIONS and BLOOD SUPPLY (with Lyme and Co-infections)

Don't forget how inaccurate testing is in humans so we're uncertain about the testing of blood supply.

https://danielcameronmd.com/patient-contracts-babesia-blood-donor/

https://www.redcrossblood.org/biomedical-services/blood-diagnostic-testing/blood-testing.html

https://www.galaxydx.com/blood-transfusion-tick-borne-disease-babesia/

https://www.lymedisease.org/lyme-sci-babesia-and-the-blood-supply/

https://www.lymedisease.org/members/lyme-times/special-issues/coinfection-issue/babesia-united-states-blood-supply/

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1600897

https://www.testing.com/news/keeping-blood-transfusions-safe-blood-parasite/

https://patientworthy.com/2020/04/02/lyme-disease-and-blood-donation/

https://www.boston25news.com/news/fda-recommends-testing-for-tick-borne-illness-in-donated-blood/951893377/

https://danielcameronmd.com/could-a-blood-transfusion-transmit-lyme-disease/

"Spirochetal infection was demonstrated by corroborative microscopic, histopathological and molecular detection of live Borrelia organisms in cultures of body fluids and tissues from these patients."

https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/6/2/33/htm

Found Borrelia Burgdorferi in blood five years post bite. https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/222625

They tested 1,700 samples eight had Borrelia Burgdorferi and two had Borrelia Miyamotoi

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243950

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6131610

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4801220

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6330027

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25590435

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/29383735

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29488546

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC429097

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5241272

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7644786

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30499595

Babesiosis and the U.S. blood supply https://www.cdc.gov/.../resou.../babesiosis_policy_brief.pdf

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