The Rh Negative Blood Factor

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1. Michael Totman May 13, 2022 Reply

   First off it’s not a Disease! or you would not be BEGGING me to Donate my Pure rh O- Negative Blood to inject into others. “a Diseased blood that would infect others no you would not! Yea Right! wake up the Rh factor does not meet the criteria nor does it Qualify as a Disease

2. Jeanette July 30, 2022 Reply

   Today our news in UK is headed by the 1970s blood transfusion scandal. Where HIV and Hepatitis C were passed on to people given blood and plasma shipped in from the USA in the 1970s. I have a serious interest in this because in 1977 l miscarried a baby at twenty weeks, a son l call Gary, and l haemhoraged very badly. I was given blood and plasma by the quart, l counted nine pints before they got me up to theatre , l know l’d have had more during op’, after my son was finally birthed. It was one of my many NDEs and one that should have killed me. I knew plasma came from the USA, not sure where my new blood came from though. I had miraculous intervention once again, and lived to tell the story. Then, in the 1990s news came in of famous females given the same products as me during the seventies as well. Women my age, famous in sixties. All with Rhesus D-NEG blood and all close to death when transfused, like me. Some had contracted HIV and some Hep C. I was terrified one of either, or both, may be lying dormant inside me. Especially as I’d given birth again, l had another son, born in 1983, long after that massive transfusion. Had l contracted, carried, got hidden inside me, either of these viruses? So it could raise its head inside my son one day? My husband at the time was furious l wanted tests, if you had tests then for HIV, or Hep C, they were new unknowns, and they listed you, and Iinsurers barred you. And he said our mortgage insurance company would cancel us. So l worried, for another decade. Then we split, divorced, and l lost my own home aged 55, and became a tenant. No insurers there. So l went for tests, for my son’s sake. Thank God, l was all clear. No HIV and no Hep C. But l came awfully close to leaving my child a legacy of horror. So this news has come as a relief, for all who have developed HIV or Hep C from.their transfusions, and whose lives it has destroyed. It’s too late for those who’ve died, but l pray their families receive the monies they’d have had, and l.kmow their souls will smile, if they do. It can’t change the past, it can make people in the profession take more care in the future though. God bless them all.

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