The State - News from Aug. 14, 1986

The family of a 72-year-old San Francisco woman who died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome after receiving infected blood during a hip operation settled a $1.5-million suit against the Irwin Memorial Blood Bank, which admitted that it made an “administrative error.” Terms of the agreement in San Francisco Superior Court were not disclosed. Frances Borchelt died almost two years after her surgery. An attorney for the blood bank said the Borchelt family acknowledged as part of the settlement that the bank “did everything it could to screen donors.” But the blood bank later determined that one of three people who donated the blood given to Mrs. Borchelt had lied about his homosexuality and had had more than 250 sexual partners, including drug users, its attorney said.