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Hospitals Knowingly Dispense Poisoned Blood

Transfusion Roulette

Babesiosis is borne of a parasite that can be traced before a blood transfusion. So why do four in every 1,000 donations still contain the potentially deadly disease?

James Joiner

Published May 8 2015 5:15AM EDT

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James Joiner

James Joiner

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