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Can dengue spread from blood contact
If a dengue infected person is donating blood to a healthy person, will he be infected with the virus at a the same Stage where the infected person had?
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Dr. SANJAY KUMAR
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Dengue transmission occurs by blood transfusion also but severity of infection depends on recipient person age immune status and prior infection with serotype of dengue virus
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