Boston 25 News: FDA recommends testing for tick-borne illness in donated blood

Steve Sloan, MD, PhD, appears in the Boston25 story on an infection transmitted by ticks that may not make you sick but could kill someone who gets your donated blood. It’s called babesiosis and the Food and Drug Administration just came out with strict new recommendations on screening for the parasite causing the disease. Medical screening has always been part of the blood donation process, but this month a new recommendation from the FDA includes wholesale testing of donor samples in certain areas of the country for the tick-borne infection babesiosis. Read more at Boston 25 News.