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Enjoy your to-be-discovered deadly viruses you got from such a transfusion. (I'm not joking, there might be undetected viruses that promote development of cance
by Odenwaelder 8y ago
Enjoy your to-be-discovered deadly viruses you got from such a transfusion. (I'm not joking, there might be undetected viruses that promote development of cancer and other diseases.)
- barry-cotter 8y agoThe history of blood transfusion is very much this story. I sincerely doubt there are any deadly viruses likely to be spread by transfusion that we don’t know about already, for large values of deadly.
- abcc8 8y agoThe hemophilia community was devastated by HIV and hepatitis C. Anyone considering transfusion therapy should be very cautious.
- seren 8y agoDeadly virus not likely, but prions with weird long term effect is something we have not quite understood yet.
- Odenwaelder 8y agoMaybe not the ones we know about, but there was a time in the 80s when AIDS suddenly spread like wildfire and we didn't know what caused it. This can very easily happen again, and you subject yourself to this danger by receiving blood transfusions.