Doctors in the Netherlands recently reported that a 6-year-old boy with an allergy to peanuts went into anaphylactic shock after receiving a blood transfusion from donors who had been snacking on them.
Apparently 3 of 5 donors had had peanuts the night before donating blood. This is not paranoia, it's legit, and just appeared in the NEJM.
Non-nerdy peeps will prefer the quick, layperson's read, found here.
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Oh that's just perfect. Makes sense, I guess. I mean, how many things were you supposed to stop eating because you could transfer it to Mini when you fed her?
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