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For those reading, you're not going to believe this but ... From the 70's to the 80's the medical community thought it was a good idea to mix blood from hundre
by redis_mlc 7y ago
For those reading, you're not going to believe this but ...
From the 70's to the 80's the medical community thought it was a good idea to mix blood from hundreds of donors and then use in transfusions.
That ended up killing nearly all of the hemophiliacs of that era, plus a good percentage of moms giving birth. Add in Hep C, and hospitals were basically butcher shops.
I followed the AIDS and hemophilia crisis in the press in real-time from the first one-column-inch Kapsoi Sarcoma stories. Boy, it wasn't pretty how the medical community reacted in slow motion.
There's an utterly horrifying Canadian movie about this.
- refurb 7y agoBlood products are still pooled. They often have to be since one single donation doesn’t give enough blood product for a single patient.