[adorno]

And those who died of tainted blood transfusions like Arthur Ashe? Really cold of you.



Was that a common thing? Tainted blood transfusions with HIV?

[Varda]

Yes, tainted blood wiped out hemophiliacs. Ryan White was a child killed because of homosexuals infecting the blood supply but he was used as a propaganda tool in the quest to convince people AIDS wasn't a homo disease. His case and others like it were why homos were barred from giving blood.

[LRoggy]

I don’t know how widespread it was but Arthur did die if that.

Thirty years after I worked in England I still can’t give blood here because I was there during the Mad Cow Disease outbreak. Awareness on checking blood supplies soared because of Ashe’s death.

[Billthedrill]

Was that a common thing?

Common, no, because of the rules for blood donation (now being changed), but it did happen - one of them killed science fiction author Isaac Asimov.

And if the viral load falls below the detection level, it is impossible for the virus to be passed on.

That is not a certainty, although it does appear to have some empirical evidence to back up the claim that it is exceedingly rare. You wouldn't want to be the one case, though. Virus titer can reach zero but it doesn't stay there when the patient departs from the medication regimen, for example. Which does happen.

[Mears]

Very common in the early days….I lost a 22 year old Godson that way.

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[CJ Wolf]

Yeah for a while. Then they stopped taking blood from at risk people and started screening it.

I think there was some kind of Clinton conspiracy back in the day that had AIDS blood and transfusions and money involved, can’t remember the details now.