The Nation - News from April 20, 1988
The Red Cross blood services director at a Nashville, Tenn., center that mistakenly shipped 15 units of suspected AIDS-contaminated blood was fired and blood processing will be halted, officials said. Dr. Gerald Sandler, associate vice president for blood services of the national Red Cross, said he personally would make sure the Nashville center’s to-be-selected blood director and its 20 lab technicians are fully qualified before the center is allowed to process blood again. Though the 15 units of suspect blood were later found not to be carrying an AIDS virus, Red Cross and Food and Drug Administration investigations found additional evidence of human error. There is no evidence blood infected with the AIDS virus or non-A non-B viral hepatitis was shipped, Sandler said.
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