Innoculations/Immunizations and Giving Blood

Factual Questions
1

In another thread, I mentioned that, when I was in Army clerk school just after basic training, there was a car accident on post where all four family members had A-neg blood. The call went out for A-neg blood, so many of us with that type went and donated.

Now we had just gotten out of basic where we had been given shots for plague, typhoid, parrot fever, yellow fever and
God knows what else.

I’m wondering if the recipients either:

A. Developed the same immunities,
B. Had no reaction at all, or
C. Died a miserable death?

Any thoughts on this?

2

My guess would be that they had no reaction – probably not enough antibodies in one pint of blood to give them any immunity. I do know that the Red Cross won’t let you donate blood within something like six weeks of immunizations. I donated about three weeks after my final Hepatitis B vaccination, and the antibodies showed up as a false positive for the disease itself. The Red Cross retested the blood and found that it was a false positive, but still politely informed me that I can never be a blood donor again.