What is the likelihood of contracting AIDS from a blood transfusion?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Spann v. Irwin Memorial Blood Centers, 34 Cal.App.4th 644, 40 Cal.Rptr.2d 360 (Cal. App. 1995):
15 One court estimated that in January of 1983 there was a 1 in 3.5 million chance of contracting AIDS from a blood transfusion. (Kozup v. Georgetown University (D.D.C.1987) 663 F.Supp. 1048, 1053, revd. in part in Kozup v. Georgetown University (D.C.Cir.1988) 851 F.2d 437, 440.)
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