Safe Blood: Purifying the Nations Blood Supply in the Age of AIDS

Thousands of hemophiliac children have contracted hepatitis and aids from transfusion with infected blood. Ninety-five percent of all Americans will need transfusions at some point in their lives; yet it has taken the terrifying emergence of AIDS to alert an unsuspecting public to the actual risks involved. Dr. Feldschuh documents the inadequacies and shocking oversights of the blood-bank system elucidating the risks of present practices and suggesting specific alternatives including the now feasible storing of ones own blood pedigreed donors and mono-donor transfusion.