“Can you get diseases from blood transfusions?”

A variety of organism, including bacteria, viruses, prions, and parasites can be transmitted through blood transfusion. However, the use of standard donor screening questionnaire as well as laboratory tests help to reduce the risk of an infectious organism being transmitted by blood transfusion. Thank you.

Theoretically YES. You can get HIV, Hepatitis, and more. However, all blood used for transfusion is carefully checked for infection and in real life, people that had blood transfusion are virtually safe from getting infected.

The short answer is yes, we can receive blood borne pathogens, which are substances that travel in the blood, transmitted thru all methods of blood contact. Not only thru transfusions but thru shared needle use, certain high risk sexual contact, lack of universal precautions in healthcare settings and the like. The good news is when you need a transfusion or you are donating blood to help others there are universal precautions in place that will be fully explained to you so you need not worry if the blood you receive or donate is safe.

Difficult to answer, and yes, possibly from human error.