Transfusion-transmitted HIV infection in India
Dr. Dharmakanta Kumbhakar drkdharmakanta@yahoo.com) In May 2016, it was reported that a three and-a-half-year-old boy, who was being treated for burn injuries, acquired HIV infection from blood transfusion at Guwahati Medical College and Hospital. In June 2013, four people tested Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) positive after an alleged blood transfusion at the Mangaldai Civil Hospital. In 2012, a thalassaemic child receiving blood transfusion in a hospital in Mananthavady, Kerala was found HIV positive. In 2011, the media reported that 28 thalassaemic children who received bloo...
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