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Blood Transfusion Concerns

Jan 29, 2010
Since a hospital in central China this week confirmed that more than 80 people has been infected with HIV/AIDS from contaminated blood it used in the mid-1990s, fears over the safety of blood transfusions have been reignited.

In the most Hubei case the victims were all infected after getting blood at one hospital in the province of between 1996 and 1997. Some unknowingly passed the virus on to their spouses or children, bringing the total number infected to above 100.

The contaminated blood came from poor rural farmers donated blood for money in Henan province. While the infections over 12 years ago the truth has only come to light now. So just how safe do people in China today feel about blood transfusions. Well, we went out and asked just that - in today's Straight from the Street.
Tags: Blood Transfusion,HIV/AIDS,Contaminated Blood

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