Excerpt from Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's: Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases,6th ed., Chapter 112, states that donors were screened for risk of
blood-borne viral infections in the 1980s and blood was tested for
HCV-specific antibodies beginning in May 1990
See also Donahue JG, et al: The declining risk of post-transfusion hepatitis C virus infection. N Engl J Med 1992; 327:369-373.
