51.   Procedures have subsequently been tightened and screening of all donated blood is routine.

52.   Scientists hope NAT will eliminate the few cases of HIV annually caused by donated blood and prevent most annual cases of hepatitis C transmission through blood.

53.   Some donated blood, explaining that they were hoping to hasten the departure of leading Socialist party officials who have vowed not to give in without bloodshed.

54.   Some health experts fear that people who have eaten contaminated beef might transmit the disease through donated blood.

55.   The Department of Health said its advisers have concluded it should implement the blood purification system known as leukodepletion, which involves removing white blood cells from donated blood.

56.   The strike involves Red Cross workers who collect and deliver donated blood.

57.   To use donated Ethiopian blood would have been a dangerous mistake.

58.   Until recently, all donated blood was tested for immune system cells that fight HIV.

59.   However, the court ruled against the hospital because it said it violated regulations in the way it handled the donated blood and carried out the blood transfusion.

60.   The scandal centres on alleged delays in the introduction of controls on donated blood and blood-products for the AIDS-producing virus HIV.