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I work in a hospital lab dealing with these kind of blood tests. Usually, chronic leukaemias develop slowly overtime and the white count will be high. Abnormal showings in lab counts will warrant further investigation by at the blood directly under a microscope and quantifying the type of white cells we see. In OPs case, his cancer was of the Myeloid (myelogenous) white blood cell lineage. So if we saw an increase in myeloid-type cells, both fully mature and immature, that is also suspicious of CML.

In contrast, often you will have lower red cell and platelet counts as the leukaemia cells crowd out healthy cells in the bone marrow. This leads to the fatigue and bruising.

Viruses affect different things though. HPV causes skin infections and can transmit skin to skin. Coronaviruses can cause respiratory infections. So typically require inoculation into the respiratory tract (mouth, nose)

Would also like to know. Thanks!

Quick and dirty read about it:

https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/m/article/krever-inquiry/

Also - no, transfusions are not rare at all. I work in a transfusion lab and I sure wish they were!

Out of curiosity, why tattoos? I have some guesses but just wondering!