This is one of those health human interest stories, to briefly take out minds off of unending crises. The article extracted below tells of some scientists thinking that blood transfusions, and organ donations may transmit memories from the donors. This could be cognitive memories, normal ones, but also biological memories of disease traits. The evidence is based upon many testimonies of people who had blood and/or organ transplants developing memories they did not previous have. But more of a concern is the biological memory one: “patients who’d received blood from donors who later had recurring brain haemorrhages were more than twice as likely to suffer one themselves.”
Does this mean that one should be careful about blood transfusion? Well the fact is that if one needs a blood transfusion, one really needs one, there is probably not much choice in the matter other than just dying!