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Health: Contaminated Blood Products

Answer

Reports of suspected transfusion transmitted infections are made to both the NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT)/Health Protection Agency (HPA) Epidemiology Unit and to the Serious Hazards of Transfusion (SHOT) scheme. Data are collated by the NHSBT/HPA Epidemiology Unit. The following table shows all transfusion transmitted infections reported to either or both schemes between October 1996 (the inception of the SHOT scheme) and December 2009. Data to 2008 are also available in the SHOT Report 2008, published at www.shotuk.org. The SHOT Report for 2009 will be published in July 2010. Number of transfusion transmitted infections reported to the NHSBT/HPA Epidemiology Unit and/or SHOT, by year of report and infection, October 1996 to December 2009. The total number of infected recipients is shown, with the number of those recipients having died shown in brackets.

Infection	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Total
Bacteria	3	1(1)	6(2)	5(2)	4(1)	5	3(1)		2	2(1)	3	6(2)	3(1)	43(11)
Hepatitis A	1						1		1					3
Hepatitis B	1	2	2	2	1		2		1					11
Hepatitis C	1		1											2
Hepatitis E								1						1
HIV¹	3						1							4
HTLV²					1	1								2
Malaria	1 (1)						1							1(1)
Prion³								1						1
vCJD							1(1)		1(1)	1(1)				3(3)
Total	10 (1)	3(1)	9(2)	7(2)	6(1)	6	9(2)	2	5(1)	3(2)	3	6(2)	3(1)	72(15)

"Notes:""¹ Human immunodeficiency virus""² Human T-lymphotropic virus""³ Evidence of prion infection found at autopsy, death was from an unrelated cause." "¹ Human immunodeficiency virus""² Human T-lymphotropic virus""³ Evidence of prion infection found at autopsy, death was from an unrelated cause." "² Human T-lymphotropic virus""³ Evidence of prion infection found at autopsy, death was from an unrelated cause." "³ Evidence of prion infection found at autopsy, death was from an unrelated cause."

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

3085; 718 c402WA

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Death Contamination Blood Infectious diseases Blood transfusions

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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