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Can we make blood transfusions safer by testing for proteins linked to strokes and Alzheimer’s? (www.ucl.ac.uk)
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[–] Gumus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I completely agree with what you say. That's not what the comment I replied to talks about, though. They're talking about patients with dementia bad enough to hurt themselves. I don't think that in such case the protein being present in the transfusion matters much anymore.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

Oh whoops yeah I misread that