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JAMA. 1970;211(6):907-922.

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NAS-NRC Tells Status Of Hepatitis Screening Tests

Each year, blood transfusions result in 30,000 serious cases of hepatitis and 1,500 to 3,000 deaths in the United States alone.

Moreover, five blood recipients may contract subclinical cases of hepatitis for every patient who develops overt disease.

These statistics were cited in a special statement from the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council which describes the current status of hepatitis screening tests. The full report appears this week in the January-February issue of Transfusion, the journal published by the American Association of Blood Banks.

A panel from the NRC's Committee on Plasma and Plasma Substitutes has been preparing this statement since last November when they called many of the scientists concerned with transfusion-induced hepatitis to a closed meeting in Washinton, DC (JAMAMEDICAL NEWS210:2001 [Dec 15] 1969).

Following two days of reports, the Committee physicians concluded that the tests . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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