[email protected] wrote:
> On Dec 11, 5:51 pm, MagillaGorilla <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>Sorry if I don't cry crocodile tears for a guy whose baggage handlers
>>mixed his blood up with Kashechkin's.
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> What I can't understand is why, if that is the case, similar to the
> obvious suppositions IRT Hamilton and Perez, someone didn't get sick.
> Or, get sick first and then die.
Because you can infuse the wrong typed blood, and, depending upon how
close the donor is to the recipient in the Major Histocompatibility
(MHC) antigens, you may or may not get a serious immune response.
When you type blood, you type for not only the A,B antigens and Rh
factor, but also for the ~22 or so MHC antigens. You can still
transfuse donor blood that is not a perfect match to all those antigens,
but I don't know when a mismatch would result in symptoms that matter.
Of course the alternative explanation is that the blood doctors of Vino,
Kash, and Tylenol thought they could outsmart WADA by transfusing
"perfect-match" donor blood which they MIGHT think the WADA test cannot
differentiate.
One of the interesting revelations with the Tyler Hamilton arbitration
hearing was that USADA was forced to disclose the 3 antigens they used
to catch Tylenol. WADA guards the secrecy of these target antigens like
a state secret in order to preserve the efficacy of the homologous blood
transfusion test.
Once all these antigens are disclosed, you can defeat it.
Also, not many people know this, but any female cyclist who tests
positive for the homologous blood doping test can simply state they had
a miscarriage and WADA has indicated they must accept that explanantion
without proof .
All a female cyclist would have to say is she had alot of unprotected
sex with many men and she missed her period a couple times. WADA has no
way to compel any male donor to submit a blood sample.
So you will never see any female cyclist busted for what Tyleneol, Vino,
Kash, and Santi did.
Magilla