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 The
Need Who
Can Donate  Safety
& Testing
Blood centers follow five layers of rigorous safety procedures:
- Blood donor eligibility standards
- Individual screening
- Laboratory testing
- Confidential exclusion of donations
- Donor record check
Thirteen tests are performed on every unit of donated blood. Eleven
of those tests are used to screen for infectious diseases, including:
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Hepatitis (a liver
infection); HIV (the virus that causes AIDS); HTLV-I
(a virus associated with a rare form of leukemia), and HTLV-II;
and Syphilis. |
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When you go
and donate blood I think that they should be happy because they
are helping other people that need it.
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Xiomara,
— elementary school student |
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