I think we have an apples and oranges situation here. Yes, transfusions can, I assume, transfer an HIV infection from donor to recipient. The question on the table is: So what? Does that cause you to die of AIDS?
The answer is no. Despite what you read the HIV and AIDS connection is unproven. AIDS, as defined as a collection of immune system related diseases is real. HIV is real. It is the relationship that is unproven to this day.
Ask yourself why prostitutes don’t get AIDS but drug users and homosexuals do.
Look for the medical journal article that proves the relationship between AIDS and HIV. You won’t find it. It is assumed to be true. Just like Global Warming and Man Made Climate Change.
You have to look deeper than Wikipedia. But you could start your search in the Wikipedia references looking for that fundamental relationship article. Remember though that the “proof” has to go back as far as 1984 or so. That’s when this all started.
Show me the person with AIDS who doesn’t have an HIV infection.
Exceptions: SCID kids, persons who were highly exposed to ionizing radiation, people whose immune systems were destroyed by chemical exposure.
HIV is a necessary (but perhaps insufficient) component of AIDS.
Lots of people have latent TB infections, they may live their lives without a full blown case of TB, but stresses can unleash the Mycobacterium tuberculosis already present.
Would you argue that mycobacterium tuberculosis doesn’t cause TB? The same reasoning applys.
Yes.
The number of persons reported with AIDS who were exposed through blood transfusions was 284 in 2000, down from a peak of 1098 in 1993.
In December 1982, a 20-month old child who previously received multiple transfusions of blood died from infections related to this newly identified disease, AIDS.
Source: History of HIV/AIDS in the U.S.
Doubtless this kid lived a life of IV drug abuse, amyl nitrate, and anal sex, no?
Homosexual male behavior can cause bleeding, causing an exchange of blood, and possibly HIV among other blood-borne diseases.