Blood donations UK, 2015

The risk that testing would NOT detect a HBV, HCV or HIV infection is less than one in a million Bacterial screening prevented transfusion of potentially harmful bacteria including Serratia marcescens, Streptococcus bovis, Streptococcus agalactiae an E.coli and allowed early referral of donors where significant bacteria were isolated eg S.bovis
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