According to the Mayo Clinic, blood transfusions can cause a number of health complications, including allergic reactions, fevers, lung injury, spread of bloodborne infections and acute immune hemolytic reaction - a rare transfusion reaction in which a person's body attacks the new blood because it's not the proper type.
Callahan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 13,544. Its county seat is Baird. The county was founded in 1858 and later organized in 1877. It is named for James Hughes Callahan, a soldier in the Texas Revolution. Callahan County is included in the Abilene, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Mrs. Callahan, 62, died July 16 in New City, New York of complications from salivary gland cancer; when she was first diagnosed with cancer in 1996, it prompted surgery and a three-month medical leave from her job as a news anchor at St. Petersburg's WTOG-Ch.ventually, she was buried in a family plot and even wrote much of the obituary posted online, said her son, Daniel J. Callahan Jr. Area viewers saw Mrs. Callahan deliver the news at two local TV stations over 18 years.