NEW DELHI: Four more children with thalassemia tested positive for HIV in Jharkhand's Chaibasa town during an investigation by a medical team from Ranchi on Saturday, bringing the total affected minors to five, following allegations that a local blood bank had transfused HIV-infected blood to a seven-year-old patient. The state government formed a five-member medical team to investigate after a family reported their seven-year-old thalassemia patient received contaminated blood from the local blood bank. The child had received approximately 25 units of blood transfusions from the blood bank, according to officials. District Civil Surgeon Dr Sushanto Majhee noted that the child had tested HIV-positive over a week ago, adding that HIV infection could also result from other factors, inc

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