Blood Safety

Japanese transfusion recipient infected by HIV-tainted blood

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 19th, 2004

A patient has been infected with HIV after blood tainted with the virus that causes AIDS slipped through the detection system of the Japan Red Cross and was used in a transfusion, a Health Ministry official says.

It was the first time that anyone in Japan had been infected with HIV by a blood transfusion since a new screening system was established in 1999, said ministry spokesman Kazunari Tanaka, who added that the patient was the only one to receive the tainted blood.

The discovery of the infection came after Red Cross officials found the virus in the blood of a donor. Subsequent checks showed that the same donor had given contaminated blood...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2004-01-19)

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