SC - Re: SC: Use of Medicinal Leeches

[KallipygosRed at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/7/00 11:41:22 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
baronsig at peganet.com writes:

>  They won't take it. I've asked the same question; there's something
>  wrong with the blood itself that makes it unusable for transfusion 
purposes,
>  though I can't figure out what. It just strikes me as a needless waste,
>  that's all.
>  
>      Sieggy

It is the same thing that is wrong with a diabetics, or an aid's victim. The 
blood itself carries the disease that afflicts the person--in this case, one 
that causes thickening of the blood--and so would create the disease in the 
person you use it on. That is the theory, anyway. I know in some extreme 
emergencies they have used diabetic blood. I know that is why I cannot give 
it. I had hepatitus as child.

Lars