Blood Safety

Blood banks begin to screen donations for bacteria

Published in Blood Weekly, April 10th, 2003

Ask about blood safety and most people think AIDS or other viruses that today are incredibly rare in transfusions. Bacterial contamination of blood poses a much bigger risk - sickening and killing dozens of people a year - yet germ-tainted transfusions get little attention.

Now blood banks are starting to adopt new antigerm technology as transfusion specialists urge the government to tackle the problem.

"Although the public is worried about HIV or West Nile virus, we may have to occasionally stand up and say in public or to a newspaper reporter, 'That's not what we should be worrying about,'" blood-safety specialist Dr. James AuBuchon of Dartmouth...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2003-04-10)

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