{"id":152470,"date":"2021-05-06T20:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/?p=277752"},"modified":"2021-05-06T20:21:11","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T20:21:11","slug":"red-cross-defied-basic-principles-of-blood-safety-by-recruiting-hepatitis-c-infected-donors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/06\/red-cross-defied-basic-principles-of-blood-safety-by-recruiting-hepatitis-c-infected-donors\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Cross defied basic principles of blood safety by recruiting Hepatitis C-infected donors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"940\" height=\"627\" src=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Australian-Red-Cross.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"Australian Red Cross\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Australian-Red-Cross.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Australian-Red-Cross-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 940px, 100vw\" \/><\/div>The Red Cross actively encouraged people it knew were infected with Hepatitis C to continue to donate blood in defiance of basic principles of blood safety. As set out by World Health Organisation guidelines, a safe blood donor is healthy and has no risk factors for HIV or other infections. Knowingly including infected blood into a therapeutic setting is a basic breach. Elizabeth Minter reports Part II of the infected blood scandal investigation.\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelwest.com.au\/red-cross-defied-basic-principles-of-blood-safety-by-recruiting-hepatitis-c-infected-donors\/\">Michael West<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Cross actively encouraged people it knew were infected with Hepatitis C to continue to donate blood in defiance of basic principles of blood safety. As set out by World Health Organisation guidelines, a safe blood donor is healthy and has no ri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152619,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152470\/revisions\/152619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}