Most blood transfusions go very smoothly. Some infectious agents, such as HIV, can survive in blood and infect the person receiving the blood transfusion. To keep blood safe, blood banks carefully screen donated blood. The risk of catching a virus from a blood transfusion is low.
Palmetto, Georgia. Palmetto (established 1853) is a city located mostly in Fulton County (originally Campbell County) and now partly in Coweta County in the U.S. state of Georgia. The population was 4,488 at the 2010 census.
The tree was added to the State Flag. South Carolina is The Palmetto State. The state tree, the Palmetto Palm, is on the state flag. There is an interesting story to explain this. When SC broke away from Britain, the first shots of the war were fired right on the coast, at Fort Sumter near Charleston.