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07-06-2004, 12:24 PM

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Transfusion Caused Man's Death-Japan

A man who received a blood transfusion in the Tokyo metropolitan area in March, died in June of fulminant hepatitis caused by blood tainted with the hepatitis B virus (HBV), which apparently slipped through blood screening administered by the Japanese Red Cross Society.

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www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20040703wo23.htm

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