I found this article with todays date on it (October 25, 2010) but the actual incident happened in 2008 so I'm not sure if this case was just discovered now or it is just now being made public. I am a little confused about that but either way it is horrific. Back in 2008, HIV positive blood was given to a patient who had just received a kidney transplant (Enriquez, 2010). The blood was donated from someone in Missouri and given to the patient in Colorado (Enriquez, 2010). According to the CDC, this was the first case in 8 years of HIV being transmitted through a blood transfusion (Enriquez, 2010). The scariest part of this for me is that the blood from the donor tested negative. This is because the donor was "tested during a 9 day eclipse period" (Enriquez, 2010). I do not know what this "eclipse period" means but apparently later on the HIV was seen in the plasma of the blood. The CDC said that the donor didn't reveal any high risk sexual practices and that it may have been undetectable anyways because the virus was at an early stage (Enriquez, 2010). The blood from this donor was also given to a heart patient in Arkansas who died 2 days after the blood transfusion (Enriquez, 2010). It could not be determined if this heart patient contracted the HIV.
I am shocked that this happened. Like I said before, it is so scary that the blood was tested and yet showed up negative for HIV. I'm just wondering how this can be avoided in the future. Did this happen because of negligence or was it simply unavoidable? It is not like the blood wasn't tested, it seems every precaution was taken, I am just dumbfounded. I can't even imagine what the kidney patient is going through. They had to wait to receive a kidney to live and now they have been infected with HIV. If I were in their situation I would want to sue but like I said, on what grounds did this happen? Hopefully this sort of thing doesn't happen again, the CDC did say it was the first time in 8 years and that HIV infection through blood transfusion is rare but it is just petrifying to hear.
Did you know?
HIV positive incarcerated woman have "high rates of cervical cytological abnormalities, sexually transmitted diseases, and certain gynecological infections" (Onorato, 2001). Vagnial infections are "slightly more common anibg HIV infected incarcerated women than non-infected incarcerated women" (Onorato, 2001).
References:
Enriquez, J. (2010, October 25). HIV-tainted blood given to kidney donation patient. Retrieved from http://seerpress.com/hiv-tainted-blood-given-to-kidney-donation-patient/11025/
Onorato, M. (2001, May). Hiv infection among incarcerated women. Retrieved from http://www.thebody.com/content/whatis/art12954.html
Once I had to recieve a blood transfusion and my mom had to sign a paper saying it would be okay to mix two types of blood together for me because they didn't have my blood type. I still think its crazy.
ReplyDeleteThat is really scary that the tested blood showed up negative. All the technology we have today and we can't even test blood accurately, that's horrible. You're did you know is very interesting as well.
ReplyDeleteIf you go to the trail in Orlando and have unprotected sex with a sex worker who may be HIV positive and doesn't know it; then in two weeks you go to donate blood you will test negative as well. That is the window period that you should be familiar with.
ReplyDeleteThat is why they ask so many probing questions. However some people lie about their sexual activity because they don't want to be looked down upon, or perhaps it is a blood drive and they don't want to be turned away in front of their peers. Happens more than you know.
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