The State - News from Aug. 19, 1986
The Central California Blood Bank will try to find 14 people who received transfusions from donors who tested positive for AIDS antibodies. When those people are found, their doctors will be asked to notify them that they may have been exposed to the fatal acquired immune deficiency syndrome and urge them to get blood tests. Dr. Donn Cobb, Fresno County public health officer, said the 14 received potentially tainted transfusions before screening for AIDS began in March, 1985. Dr. Myron Fisher, the blood bank’s medical pathologist, said only 10 blood samples tested positive for AIDS between March, 1985, and May this year.
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