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.
Palmetto Health Richland is a general medical and surgical hospital in Columbia, SC, with 708 beds. It is also a teaching hospital. Survey data for the latest year available shows that 87,230 patients visited the hospital's emergency room. The hospital had a total of 30,701 admissions.