Blood banks will shortly start to screen alldonors for NANB hepatitis. Although the new screening tests are estimated todisqualify up to 5 percent of all prospective blood donors, they will still misstwo-thirds of donors carrying NANB hepatitis. Therefore, about 10 percent ofactual donors will still supply NANB-contaminated blood.
19. Theargument above depends on which of the following assumptions?
(A) Donors carrying NANB hepatitis do not, in a largepercentage of cases, carry other infections for which reliable screening testsare routinely performed.
(C) Theestimate of the number of donors who would be disqualified by tests for NANBhepatitis is an underestimate.
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