The Red Cross says it hopes to meet all of the requirements in coming months. Dole says that when she came on board, blood was as safe as it could be at the time, but she knew changes were needed. That meant really taking a bold approach, and that's what we were determined to do. Donor screening through interviews excludes people whose histories suggest they may harbor disease-causing microbes that could be transmitted in blood. Still, people worry.
Scientists say the likelihood of that happening is extremely remote.
But there have been instances in which a blood donor later came down with the fatal illness, raising the possibility remote as it may be that something in the donor's blood could be harmful. In instances where science is iffy as in the case of the possibility of transmitting CJD through blood Dole says she'll err on the side of caution. Your chance of getting tainted blood is extremely small. You're going to die of influenza before you're going to get blood that's tainted with an AIDS virus. Askel5 Donor screening through interviews excludes people whose histories suggest they may harbor disease-causing microbes that could be transmitted in blood.