SARS-CoV-2 Found in Blood—Is it Transfusion Transmissible? Researchers in both China and South Korea have identified SARS-CoV-2 in routine blood donations. In China, 2,430 blood donations (1,656… April 15, 2020
Blood Use and Supply during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Early Lessons from Seattle Physicians and colleagues from the Transfusion Medicine and Hematology Divisions at the University of Washington in Seattle and the local… March 24, 2020
Risk of Transfusion Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Is Only Theoretical The novel coronavirus that was first reported in December 2019 from Wuhan, China has been renamed SARS-CoV-2, and causes the… March 4, 2020
Minimal Residual Risk for HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C from Blood Products Based on screening results of over 58 million blood donations from the American Red Cross from more than 14.7 million… February 28, 2020
New Draft Guidance Recommendations from the FDA to Reduce Risk of Transfusion-Transmitted Creutzfeldt-Jakob Diseases Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a fatal, rare neurological disease caused by infectious prions, or abnormally folded proteins. Sporadic CJD accounts… February 5, 2020
World on Heightened Alert for Novel Coronavirus Coronaviruses are a large family of enveloped RNA zoonotic viruses. The emerging novel coronavirus from Wuhan, China that was first… January 28, 2020
New Ebola Treatment Options Available The current outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) which began in August 2018 in North Kivu and Ituri provinces of… December 3, 2019
WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo an International Emergency The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo… July 25, 2019
Bacterial sepsis among transfusion recipients despite secondary mitigation strategies Bacterial contamination of platelet products is the most common transfusion-transmitted infection in the United States (U.S.). To mitigate this risk,… June 28, 2019
New FDA Recommendations for Babesiosis Screening of Blood Donations Babesiosis, caused by a tick-borne intra-erythrocytic parasite, is normally asymptomatic in humans but can cause severe and even deadly flu-like… May 16, 2019
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