Posted on 07/19/2002 5:19:49 AM PDT by kattracks
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jul 19, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Two people have contracted HIV from blood transfusions provided by a regional blood bank that failed to detect an infected donor, officials said.
The incident marks the second time since the nation's blood banks implemented new screening technology in 1999 that HIV has been transmitted through a transfusion, according to Florida Blood Services. The first case infected a man in San Antonio, Texas, in September.
The victims, one young adult and one in the mid-60s, were told Wednesday they contracted HIV from blood and plasma transfusions in Hillsborough and Pinellas county hospitals, according to Florida Blood Services, which processed the blood.
The donor gave infected blood on May 11, but had contracted the disease so recently that tests did not detect it, said German LeParc, chief medical officer for the blood bank. The virus takes seven to 10 days to build up sufficiently for detection.
When the donor returned to give blood again May 30, it tested positive for HIV and that donation was destroyed, LeParc said. The donor was notified and officials began tracking down patients who received the previous donation.
Experts said the chance of getting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from donated blood is one in 2 million to 3 million transfusions, and they stress that the nation's blood supply remains very safe.
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If the media had been allowed to touch the Story, news of the Tainted Blood Scandal might actually have SAVED the lives of many homosexuals ... and prevented also the infection and deaths rampant among innocent hemophiliacs, adults and children alike.
Instead, homosexuals were far more valuable as martyrs and useful idiot political harpies intent on "forcing" the goverment to CONTINUE funding the exact Private Entities that were responsible for the Crisis in the first place.
(As if the government weren't pleased as punch to oblige our every Demand for money, Choice and Security these days.)
Here in the Land of the Free, we don't get the press coverage the rest of the world gets as Japan actually imprisons government ministers, France convicts (if not sentences) theirs and blood trail investigations are ongoing throughout Europe and the UK. Probably because ... as the headwaters of prisoner blood plasma -- Louisiana and Arkansas pumping away through 1994 -- we're likewise more use as Righteous Useful Idiots cluck-clucking about homoseculars and those stupid blacks and their spade kick ways dying in droves in Africa.
Americans being quite content to shout down the dying and their "Gay" disease.
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They got it from transfusion. They received blood, did not donate it.
Agreed about the title.
Not that there aren't better stories for prompting a full investigation of the history of HIV and Hep-C infection thanks to the shoddy practices of our nation's prison bleed programs.
Federal Reporter: Arizona's Bruce Babbitt Knew in 1980 (622 F.2d 458; 1980 U.S. App. (AZ 1980)
Agreed.
But there are a lot of people (myself included) who cannot use pre-operative autologous donation because of low haemoglobin count.
Your point seems to be blissfully ignorant of the fact that homosexualists are pushing to have their high risk behavior removed from the screening process.
And, unless I misread the story, this adds 2 more cases to the transmission rate.
A low stat, unless you gave a crap about those infecteted.
Yes, a low stat, and completely avoidable, except for risk takers who share those risks with the rest of us.
Since the military has made homosexuality illegal they often are forced to defend their decision.
On the battlefield, much of the donated blood comes from ones own buddies. The above is one of the major, but unspoken, reasons why the military discharges homosexuals.
For the same reasons, they should rescind "don't ask don't tell" and return to "unqualified."
saline solution
dextran
Haemaccel
lactated Ringer's solution
Hetastarch (HES)
Could someone in the know comment on the efficacy of these substances?
So, this is "very safe," ONLY one in 2 to 3 million will get HIV. How do you know if you draw that number? Oh, they'll tell you after you got it from the blood.
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