Safe Blood: Purifying the Nation's Blood Supply in the Age of AIDS

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Fitness & diet

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Wordery

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Free press

Safe Blood: Purifying the Nation's Blood Supply in the Age of AIDS : Free Press : 9780684863863 : 0684863863 : 19 Dec 1990 : Thousands of hemophiliac children have contracted hepatitis and aids from transfusion with infected blood. Ninety-five percent of all Americans will need transfusions at some point in their lives; yet it has taken the terrifying emergence of AIDS to alert an unsuspecting public to the actual risks involved. Dr. Feldschuh documents the inadequacies and shocking oversights of the blood-bank system, elucidating the risks of present practices and suggesting specific alternatives, including the now feasible storing of one's own blood, "pedigreed" donors, and mono-donor transfusion.

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