YOU CAN CATCH HEPATITUS FROM BLOOD TRANSFUSION

ACEPLUMBING · 10-10-2007, 05:05 PM

"Hepatitis" means inflammation of the liver. Hepatitis can be caused by many things including gallstones, medications, drinking alcohol, obesity and liver infections.

Hepatitis caused by Hepatitis B virus and Hepatitis C virus can be easily transmitted from donors to patients through transfusion. It is possible for a donor to carry a hepatitis virus even though he has never been sick with an inflamed liver, and he feels entirely well at the time of donation.

Hepatitis B and hepatitis C are transmitted between people through sexual contact and blood-to-blood contact, such as occurs when needles are shared during IV drug use. Hepatitis viruses can also be transmitted from mothers to their unborn babies. However, many people who have hepatitis virus infection cannot determine how they became infected. There is a vaccine for the hepatitis B virus.

All blood donations are tested for hepatitis B and hepatitis C with several different tests. But because these tests are not perfect, it is still important for people who may be infected with hepatitis viruses to not donate blood. In some cases, all that is required is a waiting period after some particular event, such as an exposure to a patient with hepatitis, to be sure the person was not infected. In other cases, the likelihood of hepatitis is high enough that the person is not eligible to donate regardless of how much time has gone by.

Megadork · 10-10-2007, 05:07 PM

Thats some scary juju

**Freak** · 10-10-2007, 05:12 PM

Once again posting information without a source. I never said HPC and HPB cannot be spread through blood transfusions. It is POSSIBLE but rare because as your piece states, they are not allowed to give blood and the blood is screened for it.

I am sure other countries have problems but in the U.S. if you give blood you are helping improve and/or save someone's life.

I am not judging you or your opinions on giving or not giving. I am just putting out the information so people can make their own decisions.

ACEPLUMBING · 10-10-2007, 05:18 PM

this thread is read all over the world bro....over 100,000 die every year in U.S. hospitals from blood infections so stop encouraging people to take a risky chance..

**Freak** · 10-10-2007, 05:22 PM

Give me a valid, reputable, recent source for your hearsay evidence. I posted straight from the CDC!!

AND people aren't going to get anything by giving blood.

**Freak** · 10-10-2007, 05:24 PM

The people outside the U.S. can contact their equivalent of the CDC in their country and see if the statistics are reasonable for them. I am posting from the CDC which covers the U.S. where you and I live!

ACEPLUMBING · 10-10-2007, 05:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Freak

The people outside the U.S. can contact their equivalent of the CDC in their country and see if the statistics are reasonable for them. I am posting from the CDC which covers the U.S. where you and I live!

CDC LIES TO PROTECT IT'S ASS..CDC LIES PATIENTS DIES..

**Freak** · 10-10-2007, 05:29 PM

Nice evidence. I guess you couldn't find anything... that is valid, reputable, recent.

Beefcake · 10-10-2007, 06:11 PM

skeptic · 10-11-2007, 01:00 AM

Ace... everything has faults... EVERYTHING.

You cannot expect every single case to be 100% successful everytime... There is human error. There is BOUND to be someone who has an adverse reaction to the blood they have received, and unfortunately, there is bound to be someone who contracts a fatal disease.

It sounds like you expect it to be perfect, but there will ALWAYS be someone who has an adverse reaction. a Eutopian health system is an impossibility in any country.