1.   The second subcategory of blood-to-blood contact is transmission by receipt of contaminated blood transfusions or of contaminated blood products.

2.   Haemophiliacs are seeking compensation for being given contaminated blood.

3.   They believe it could reduce the risk of AIDS being spread through contaminated blood.

4.   But the disease also can be spread through contaminated blood or hypodermic needles.

5.   Everyone who had been to the crash scene Thursday night or Friday morning was ordered to get hepatitis shots in case they had come in contact with contaminated blood.

6.   Hepatitis C is a viral infection spread by contact with contaminated blood.

7.   In the past, the main route of infection was through transfusions of contaminated blood and blood products.

8.   It is most often sexually transmitted, but can be transmitted by transfusions or contact with contaminated blood.

9.   Other studies have traced the virus and its effects in people who were infected through contaminated blood about two decades ago.

10.   Tests have been developed to detect each type of hepatitis and to eliminate contaminated blood from transfusions.