What to Ask About Blood Transfusions
September 21st, 2011
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Learning that tennis star Arthur Ashe contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion no doubt sent a shiver through many of us. When you face surgery, you don’t want to have to fear you’ll contract a deadly disease. But, say health and blood bank officials, your chance of getting contaminated blood these days is less than your chance of an allergic reaction to penicillin or of dying in a plane crash. Before 1985, when testing for the AIDS virus in donated blood was begun, 4,750 people got AIDS through blood transfusions. Since then, only 20 have , according to Tom Skinner of the federal Centers for Disease Control. Read more…
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