LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) For many in Kentucky, Zika is not a big concern. Blood donor Brandon Warden says, “It doesn’t really worry me much.” “We really don’t live close to any of the areas that have been affected or anything so it may or may reach this area,” says blood donor Ramona Lee
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government told all U.S. blood banks Friday to start screening for Zika, a major expansion intended to protect the nation’s blood supply from the mosquito-borne virus. Previously, blood testing was mostly limited to parts of Florida and Puerto Rico, where Z
LAKEWOOD, Colo., — August 9, 2016—Terumo BCT, a global leader in blood component, therapeutic apheresis and cellular technologies, today announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with B Medical Systems, a Luxembourg-based leading manufacturer of professional biomedic
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – For the first time ever, Kentucky Blood Center will be accepting blood donations at the Kentucky State Fair. Kentucky Blood Center (KBC) will be located in the Health Horizons building and will be collecting blood from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. every day of the f
ST. PAUL, Minn. and NEW YORK, Aug. 2, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Innovative Blood Resources (IBR) and New York Blood Center (NYBC) announced today that they are combining their operations to create one of the nation’s leading blood centers, serving patients and hospita
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave 400,000 dollars to Alabama to fight Zika. The goal is to give real-time data about the Zika epidemic as it unfolds. Right now Lifesouth Community Blood Centers are taking steps to prevent the spread of Zika though blood donat
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ)- Judy Dube was greeted by a sign at the Kentucky Blood Center, Tuesday morning letting her know if she’d traveled to a specific area of Florida in the past 28-days, she’d need to hold off on donating blood. That sign will greet everyone looking to donate blood af
LEXINGTON, KY – The Kentucky Blood Center has announced that the FDA recommends that all blood centers throughout the country begin deferring donors who have traveled to Miami- Dade and Broward counties in Florida in the past four weeks. There has been a local outbreak of Zika virus i
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — Lots of people attending Comic-Con dress up as superheroes, but some attendees got to be real heroes. That is because they were saving lives by donating blood. The San Diego Blood Bank is holding a special blood drive to coincide with Comic-Con. This comes as the Re
The NIH has awarded $55 million during the current federal fiscal year toward partnerships and infrastructure to launch a key component of President Barack Obama’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI)—a research cohort of 1 million-plus Americans from which to glean data. NIH said the