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Blood Transfusion Dangers
The June 1970 issue of Science Digest, page 55, states the following: “Blood transfusions result in 30,000 serious cases of hepatitis and 1,500 to 3,000 deaths in the United States alone each year, according to the National Academy of Sciences—National Research Council. Moreover, it is estimated five others develop subclinical cases of hepatitis for each full-blown disease.” The publication also noted that a study at the National Institutes of Health showed that “half of a group of 82 patients receiving commercial blood had developed hepatitis within six months after corrective heart surgery.” God’s law prohibiting the taking of any blood into one’s body is, indeed, a protection to those who obey it.—Acts 15:20, 28, 29.
