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From: uflorida!novavax!rwright@gatech.edu (Ronald K. Wright)
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Subject: Re: HIV+ Transfusion on the Onset
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Date: 30 May 89 13:44:45 GMT
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In article <24284@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> AS.DLH%STANFORD.BITNET@oac.ucla.edu (David Hatt) writes:
>Something has been bothering me for some time regarding people who
>are HIV+.  My question is:
>
>    Why can't a simple and complete blood
>transfusion be done when a person is diagnosed as HIV+?

In addition to not working because it would get a minimal number of 
lymphocytes,as they mostly live out of the blood stream, it will not work
because transfussion will not effect the brain cells.  Microglia and 
neurons are both infected early in the course.
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