Infection with bacteria due to a blood transfusion is an extremely rare complication with redcell transfusions, in the order of one per million transfusions.
输注红细胞引起细菌感染是极罕见的输血并发症，数量级为每百万次输血发生一例。
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Dr Rao found that patients who had had a transfusion because of a low red blood-cell count had an 8% chance of dying within 30 days. Without a transfusion, only 3% died.
饶博士还发现因血细胞值低而接受输血的患者中有8%在30天内死亡而未接受输血者中只有3%。
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And a study carried out earlier this year found that critically ill children whose red blood-cell counts had dropped by half fared no better after a transfusion than those who did not receive one.