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On This Day: March 4 1985 The Food and Drug Administration Began Requiring Tests for All Donated Blood in the United States

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: March 4 1985 The Food and Drug Administration Began Requiring Tests for All Donated Blood in the United States.

On this day March 4 1985 the Food and Drug Administration implemented a new policy requiring all donated blood in the United States to be tested for HIV. This decision came in response to growing concerns over the transmission of AIDS through blood transfusions particularly after the widely publicized case of Ryan White a 12 year old boy who contracted AIDS from a contaminated blood transfusion in 1984.

Before mandatory testing was introduced thousands of hemophiliacs and transfusion...
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