Abstract
To the Editor.— An item in your QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (223:202, 1973) concerned the labeling of blood for transfusion by race of donor, as the views of your questioner (but not the replies to him) have been quoted by a South African publication in refutation of our recent demonstration 1 that there is no sero-genetically sound reason for such labeling. We used the statistical model and the antigenicity constants published by Giblett 2 and found that even when one calculated the probability of antibody production among five different racial groups, the hazards of intraracial and interracial transfusion were of much the same order of magnitude. Subsequent correspondence 3 in which our conclusions were published criticized the statistical methods (we shall be publishing shortly a refutation of the criticisms) and claimed that infective hazards were great enough to make transfusions between races inadvisable. We contend that this consideration, if it is well
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