Q 19-20 are based on the following.
Blood banks will shortly start to screen all donors for NANB hepatitis. Although the new screening tests are estimated to disqualify up t o5 percent of all prospective blood donors, they will still miss two-thirds of donors carrying NANB hepatitis. Therefore, about 10 percent of actual donors will still suppy NANB-contaminated blood.
19. The arguement above depends on which of the following assumption?
(A) Donors carrying NANB hepatities do not, in a large percentage of
cases, carry other infections for which reliable screening tests are
routinely performed.
(B) Donors carrying NANB hepatities do not, in a large percentage of
cases, develop the disease themselves at any point.
(C) The estimate of the number of donors who would be disqualified by
tests for NANB hepatitis is an underestimate
(D) The incidence of NANB hepatitis is lower among the potential blood
donors than it is in the population at large.
(E) The donors who will still supply NANB-contaminated blood will donate
blood at the average frequency for all donors.
----->答案為何是(A)呢?