[packagingguy]

This very thing is what did Arthur Ashe (the tennis player, for all you younger people) in. He received a transfusion of infected blood. It was a big deal at the time in Richmond, VA where he was from.

[Verginius Rufus]

Paul Gann of Proposition 13 fame received an HIV-tainted blood transfusion in 1982 and died in 1989--apparently the HIV hastened his death.

After 9/11, Yasser Arafat staged a photo-op where he was shown donating blood. Let's hope it was poured out and not given to anyone in a transfusion.