Let me see if I understand this:
a soldier is bleeding out and they give him blood to save his life, which he is about to lose if he doesn’t get blood IMMEDIATELY.
But now they’re fussing because the blood given was unscreened and the soldier may develop an awful disease (rule out malaria as being awful. It is very treatable. I know.) at some unspecified time down the road and that disease while bad and may kill him may also be treatable.
Um, I’ll take door number one, please.
So, you want your child to be part of a unit where his choices are “die or get tainted blood which may kill you far sooner than the norm?”
It is a morale issue in the unit. Your blood can save Snuffy, but Snuffy’s will kill or debilitate you.
Why did I just have to take doxycycline for weeks when I recently was in Asia, if malaria is so cool?
It isn’t that easy a problem. Not all blood borne diseases have cures, herpes simplex for example.
My 68-year old mother had part of one lung removed due to cancer. She required blood transfusions, one of which was tainted with herpes simplex. Not cool.