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DATE: SATURDAY, June 30, 1990                   TAG: 9006300240
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.                                LENGTH: Short

VA PATIENT MISTAKENLY RECEIVES AIDS BLOOD

A mix-up of two patients with the same last name caused the wrong man to receive the AIDS-infected blood of the other, hospital officials said.

The error was discovered within an hour, he said Dr. Darwin Palmer, chief of infectious diseases at Veterans Administration Medical Center.

The hospital immediately notified the patient about the error Wednesday and offered him high-dose antiviral therapy, including the drug AZT, in an effort to stave off infection, Palmer said.

- Associated Press 


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