Can you get an STD from a blood transfusion?

Answer 1

No, only the antibodies that fight the virus are found in the bloodstream. The actual virus stays around the spinal cord and your nerve system. It is more of a skin contact disease.

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Blood indeed is very precious. The marvelous fluid is indeed unique in that it is really outstanding in what it does for us. The major worth stems around the fact that Christ's blood alone is the cure all, remedy, ransom for all mankind's woes! The amazing worth of Christ's blood is diminished by the abuse of the marvelous fluid by any idea of transfusing , eating (blood sausage etc.) Revelation 1:5 (Expanded Bible) and from Jesus Christ. Jesus is ·the faithful witness [or the faithful one, the witness], the ·first among those raised from [L�firstborn of/from among] the dead. He is the ruler of the kings of the earth. ·He is the One [L�To him] who loves us, who made us free from our sins ·with the blood of his death [L�by his blood].

NOTE THE carefulness we should express to any use of blood: (Acts 15:28,29) Amplified Bible: "For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit & to us not to lay upon you any greater burden than these indispensable requirments, 29 That you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols & from (tasting )blood & from eating the meat of animals that have been strangled and sexual impurity, If you keep yourselves from these things you will do well. Farewell"

Please note the article "Blood Transfusions How Safe" at jw.org

Note the article: "A World With Out Answers:

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No answer to disease

Medical science has done much in fighting disease, but the picture is not the rosy one forecast in 1975 by one of the world's leading scientists: "I know of no medical problems we will not be able to solve in the near future." Ten years later, not only is the fight far from being won but it is losing ground on many fronts. Cancer, heart trouble, cirrhosis, Diabetes, multiple sclerosis, malaria, sleeping sickness, snail fever, leprosy-all rage on unabated.

Venereal diseases have not succumbed to antibiotics. Stronger antibiotics result in more resistant bacterial strains. AIDS is incurable and spreading-primarily among homosexuals, intravenous drug users, and recipients of blood transfusions. There is no known cure for genital herpes. Chlamydia is an epidemic that annually "afflicts at least three million and perhaps as many as 10 million people." Among other disabilities, it causes infertility.

Newsweek of February 4, 1985, reported: "The United States is currently in the grip of an STD [sexually transmitted disease] outbreak of unprecedented proportions. The statistics are awesome: 1 in 4 Americans between the ages of 15 and 55 will acquire STD at some point in his or her life." The article concludes: "The best protection against STD, it seems, just might be a return to that old-fashioned safeguard: monogamy." This is an answer unacceptable to this world.

Answer 2

Yes you can, but its uncommon.

A number of years ago it was a much higher possibility of contracting HIV/AIDS from blood transfusions than it is today. Blood testing standards from donors has become so strict and rigid that the blood is tested for HIV, Hepatitis, and other Infectious Diseases before it is ever released to hospitals and blood banks used for transfusions. So, no, it is not likely at all that you can get AIDS from a blood transfusion.

The estimated residual risk of contracting HIV from a volunteer donated blood component is approximately 1 in 3,100,000. Since the advent of HIV Nucleic Acid Testing, the last documented case of HIV transmission by blood product transfusion occurred in 2010.

Answer 3

All blood is tested for STDs; so you won't get a STD from a blood transfusion.

Answer 4

No, herpes is not spread through blood contact.

Answer 5

You can't get gonorrhea from a blood transfusion. It's not a blood-borne pathogen.

Answer 6

No herpes can't be cured from a transfusion, clean blood doesn't cancel out herpes. There isn't a cure for herpes on the market, but antiviral medication comes pretty close to a cure.

Answer 7

Herpes is not spread through blood. The infection is spread by skin-to-skin contact with an infected person during or just before an outbreak.

Answer 8

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