Peanut-tainted blood triggers boy's allergic reaction

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updated 5/18/2011 5:08:44 PM ET

Blood from donors who snacked on peanuts apparently triggered a life-threatening reaction in a 6-year-old boy with a severe food allergy, researchers report.

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“It is possible that allergens transferred in blood products to other patients have led to reactions that have gone unexplained and unreported,” wrote lead author Dr. Joannes F.M. Jacobs of Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center in the Netherlands.

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