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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 11 (AP)—Blood donated by family members and friends is more likely to carry hepatitis and some other diseases than is blood from anonymous donors, a Government study has found... The study, financed by the National Institutes of Health, is the first large-scale examination of the safety of directed donations, Mr. Williams said. It involved examination of the records of 1,099,341 donations by 699,702 donors in Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Detroit, San Francisco and the Baltimore-Washington area. One screening test showed that 2.6 percent of donations from friends and relatives were infected with hepatitis B, compared with 1.8 percent of blood-bank donations, Mr. Williams said. Donations from friends and family members were also more likely to be contaminated with hepatitis C, syphilis and a virus HTLV-1, that can cause cancer.
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