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 Brewing of Charleston, founded in 1993, is South Carolinaâs first craft brewery. Owned by the Lipov family, Palmetto has grown from 2,000 barrels in 2012 to a forecast of 16,000 barrels in 2017. Palmetto beers are distributed in the Carolinas and parts of Georgia, and the company has a brewery/tasting room in Charleston.