DraconianAC said:
People need to calm the fawk down. Most of you don't even live in California like I do. I'm cool with it. If your not overly promiscuous, you will be fine, and blood banks can easily test for the virus.
Here you go over reacting blaming babies: https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/bt/risks
Here is the quote:
"Viruses and Infectious Diseases
Some infectious agents, such as HIV, can survive in blood and infect the person receiving the blood transfusion. To keep blood safe, blood banks carefully screen donated blood.
The risk of catching a virus from a blood transfusion is very low.
HIV. Your risk of getting HIV from a blood transfusion is lower than your risk of getting killed by lightning. Only about 1 in 2 million donations might carry HIV and transmit HIV if given to a patient.
Hepatitis B and C. The risk of having a donation that carries hepatitis B is about 1 in 205,000. The risk for hepatitis C is 1 in 2 million. If you receive blood during a transfusion that contains hepatitis, you'll likely develop the virus.
Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). This disease is the human version of Mad Cow Disease. It's a very rare, yet fatal brain disorder. There is a possible risk of getting vCJD from a blood transfusion, although the risk is very low. Because of this, people who may have been exposed to vCJD aren't eligible blood donors."
Wear a condom or two if you're going to have sex with someone you don't know, and even then you're still not 100% protected to something far more shaming than HIV/AIDS--Herpes. I bet most of you don't even get regularly laid, or have multiple partners withing a given year.
Such babies...
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15660015
http://annals.org/aim/article/718529/screening-hiv-review-evidence-u-s-preventive-services-task-force
The risk of getting HIV from a blood transfusion with HIV-infected blood is 90%. The testing is extremely accurate, yes - but an accuracy of over 99% might mean a lot is still leaking through the cracks when the sample baloons into the thousands or millions. Even if the blood is properly screened the chance is 0.27%, since there is a false negative chance of 0.03, which may seem low, but it is about the same as having unprotected sex with someone with HIV. Of course the overall risk will be significantly lower, since the pool of donors will include mostly healthy people. That means there won't be someone who will end up drawing the shortest straw after as little as every 300 people who donate with HIV.
Next time at least try to quote from scientific articles instead of badly written public web pages without a single proper reference before calling people "babies".
