HIV and Hepatitis C: A New Approach to Blood Safety

I'm sadly familiar with that case. That case led to one of the few times when I've been on the news and I did not enjoy that, even though my blood center wasn't involved at the time it happened because it happened in my area. And we've really tried to make it almost as close to zero risk as we can for HIV and hepatitis. So between the questioning and testing, the risk now is really 1 to 1.5 million per donated unit. The window period with nucleic acid testing is only about nine days.