Blood Banking/China

Three Paid Plasma Donors in China Likely Infected by Collection Equipment

Published in AIDS Weekly, August 14th, 1995

Finding three plasma donors, with no risk factors, infected with HIV-1 in rural China stresses the need to better control HIV-1 infection and to consider HIV-1 surveillance for plasma donors in China.

The epidemiological data suggest that the most likely source of infection in the female plasma donors was from contaminated equipment used in the collection of plasma and the reinjection of blood cells, stated Zunyou Wu, Department of Epidemiology, Anhui Anti-Epidemic Station, Hefei, Anhui, China, and colleagues ("HIV-1 Infection in Commercial Plasma Donors in China," the Lancet, July 1, 1995;346:61-62).

Two earlier issues of the Lancet reported and...

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