Episode 114: Is It Ok to Pay People for Their Blood Plasma?
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The Effect of Cash on Blood Quality
The number of blood units that will contain one of these viruses is going to be dependent on the background presence of the virus in a particular city. College students are less likely to have HIV, HPV, HCV than the general population. So if you open a blood clinic at Georgetown University, for example, you're going to get very low viral hits. But if you open it up to the public in general, then you might have a problem.
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