Blood Banks are getting safer
BLOOD BANKS ARE SAFER THAN EVER As spokesperson for the American Red Cross, I would like to address the public’s rapidly growing concern over our nation’s blood supply. The population of our country must abate their fears regarding contamination of our blood supply from the AIDS virus and hepatitis. Since the early nineteenth century the United States has used intravenous administration from a donor to a recipient for blood transfusions. The Red Cross prerequisites for safeguarded and reliable blood transfusions involves knowledge of donor screening and selection, and most importantly testing for the presence of antibodies for AIDS, and testing for retroviral infections specifically Hepatitis B. Initially, safety in blood transfusions translates into highly effective donor screening and selection, as well as pretransfusion testing for the presence of transmissible and infectious diseases in the donor’s blood. Today blood transfusions are one of medicines safest procedures in comparison to American’s dying from Salmonella in bad chicken or complications from a general anesthesia (“Blood Supply Safer” 16). Likewise, the United States volunteer blood collecti
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