How many people have gotten HIV/Hep C from blood transfusion since testing began? - hep c more condition_symptoms>hep
How many have been documented cases of HIV / hepatitis C through blood transfusions, since the testing began in the 80s-90s. I'm having trouble finding information and research on this topic. Thank you.
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Hep C More Condition_symptoms>hep How Many People Have Gotten HIV/Hep C From Blood Transfusion Since Testing Began?
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There were no documented cases of transmission through blood, since the test runs started in about 1985 / 6 safe for HIV (at least in Canada, not that the United States).
The risk is very low today:
HIV - about 1 in 1.6 million with the current data
Hepatitis C:
HCV - The risk of HCV transmission through blood transfusion decreased significantly after the introduction of testing blood donors for HCV in 1990. The risk was estimated at 1 / 225000 donations from 1987 to 1996 on the model incidence window-period off. The window of time are evidence of HCV nucleic acid amplification (NAT HCV) is shorter than the test anti-HCV. In Canada, the implementation of HCV NAT in pools of 24 samples in 1999 further reduced the risk of HCV transmission through transfusion.
Not sure how many, but the probability is less than 1 case per million transfusions.
nejm.com tried? PubMed? who.org cdc.gov could also contribute to
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