Two Tampa Bay Residents Contract HIV From Blood Transfusion
July 19, 2002
Two Tampa Bay area residents received devastating news Wednesday when they learned they had contracted the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from a blood transfusion. The two unidentified patients received the tainted transfusions during surgery in mid-March. According to Florida Blood Services, which supplies 180,000 pints of blood a year to 30 Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco county hospitals, the transfusions originated from the same donor.
Experts say the chance of acquiring HIV from a blood transfusion is around one in 2 million. The incident marks the second time in the past year, though, that a healthy patient has contracted HIV from a blood transfusion. A San Antonio, Texas man was infected in September.
-- Article Courtesy of InjuryBoard.com
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