Blood transfusions are of importance not only in human medicine. Also animals do need blood donations. ... Reasons for a blood transfusion among dogs and cats are usually serious accidents, ...

Their research, published online in Zoo Biology in September, typed collected blood samples and assigned human ABO blood groups to more than 680 great apes. "Our initial foray was very clinical ...

Cats and dogs, like humans, have different blood types, Perry said. But dogs have a universal donor blood type and are larger, so their blood is more often available at animal blood banks.

Variant Of Mad Cow Disease May Be Transmitted By Blood Transfusions, According To Animal Study Date ... is known about the four recorded cases of vCJD acquired by blood transfusion in humans.

Episode 145For the Love of Goats There have been instances where a goat owner watched a severely parasitized, anemic goat die because they did not realize that a life-saving blood transfusion was ...

Holly Tucker's "Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution" is an engrossing account of the hit-and-miss history of blood transfusion.

1667: The first blood transfusion involving a human being is performed. Jean-Baptiste Denys, personal physician to France’s Louis XIV, is generally credited with performing the first human blood ...

Blood banks carefully screen donated blood to identify blood type. They also test for infectious diseases such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) , which can be transmitted during a transfusion.

1667: The first blood transfusion involving a human being is performed. Jean-Baptiste Denys, personal physician to France's Louis XIV, ...