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| Dangers of Blood Transfusion |
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Objections to blood transfusions may arise for personal, medical, or religious reasons. For example, Jehovah's Witnesses object to blood transfusion primarily on religious grounds - they believe that blood is sacred; although they have also highlighted possible complications associated with transfusion. Apart from emergencies arising from trauma and blood loss during surgery, there is no need for the senseless transfusions that have become rampant in our health care delivery system. The dangers in blood transfusion are many but I will only mention a few in this write-up. A Transfusion transmitted infection (TTI) is a virus, parasite, or other potential pathogen that can be transmitted in donated blood through a transfusion to a recipient. The term is usually limited to known pathogens, but also sometimes includes agents such as Simian foamy virus which are not known to cause disease. In developed countries, rigorous screening is usually done for known diseases for blood kept in blood banks but recently, the USA authorities made an announcement that there is no 100% guarantee of safety for such screened blood. The developing countries are very much disadvantaged for lack of necessary equipment to do thorough screening and the number of pathogens being screened are by far limited For more information please <CLICK> |
