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1997 update (Blood transfusions are even safer today than a few years ago.):

The AIDS scare led to improvements in donor screening and blood testing, and new filtering devices are also in use. A May 7, 1997 Associated Press article gives the current risk of AIDS infection as less than one case per 450,000 pints of blood.

U.S. government statistics available in Spring 1997 indicate one fatal hemolytic transfusion reaction for every 100,000 units of blood. (National Institutes of Health, NIH Consensus Development Conference Reports, http://text.nim.nih.gov/ftrs)

A federal government report titled "Progress in Blood Supply Safety" concludes "Nonetheless, blood and blood products are not entirely risk-free. . . . But for patients who need blood transfusions, the risk of transfusion-associated disease is far less than the risk of dying or becoming more seriously ill without a transfusion." (http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/health/blood2.txt)
The December 1, 1984 Watchtower actually features on facing pages (24 and 25) articles telling JWs to make "the Watch Tower Society a beneficiary" of their life insurance and to carry a NO BLOOD card "signed by your next of kin"
Why does the Watchtower Society lie . . .
. . . about the risks of taking blood versus refusal?
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