31.   More startling was that the blood donor also had been infected for many years without developing AIDS.

32.   Most of the injured were taken to Sklifasovsky Hospital, where medical officials put out an appeal for blood donors to come Tuesday night.

33.   Researchers focused on a small group of Australians who were inadvertently infected with a nef-deleted strain of HIV through transfusions from one blood donor.

34.   Since the start of the AIDS epidemic more than a decade ago, the number of blood donors has steadily declined.

35.   Tests are now required for pregnant women, blood donors, people with sexually transmitted diseases and all Cubans who have lived abroad.

36.   The blood donor lay down at his local chapter of the American Red Cross and relaxed before the large-bore needle slipped into his vein.

37.   The Health and Welfare Ministry withheld information about HIV-tainted blood donors from the public, indirectly causing the deaths of hundreds of hemophiliacs.

38.   The heroes are firefighters, policemen, doctors, nurses and blood donors.

39.   The heroes are firemen, policemen, doctors, nurses and blood donors.

40.   The protein, usually acquired from blood donors, is injected in burn victims and other patients to replace blood loss.